By Scott MacLennan | Project Leader
The number of children coming to our village school everyday keeps growing and growing, which is great. We've had to divide up the day into two sessions, girls come in the morning and boys in the afternoon. Still, we ran out of room to hold classes and we just added a second classroom to the school. The building that houses the school has a total of four rooms, each approx. 18ft by 18ft. One is the home of our new women's health clinic (see Her Farm project on GlobalGiving) and now two are in use for classrooms.
One classroom is now the media room. English is taught in that room via the use of a computer connected to a large screen TV for classes or on individually paced learning programs on several laptops. The new classroom is where the homework club meets every morning at 6:30am with English class starting at 7:00am.
Many of the children walk an hour (or more) to take part in these classes. Keep in mind, these classes are in addition to their normal school program at the local government school. These are very dedicated students who understand how important learning English and how to use computers is for their future.
The new classroom was added with nearly all volunteer labor. I am adding a link to a short video we made about the building of this class and urge you watch how it came into being. The link is below.
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