By Laura Salazar | Project Leader
Fabulous African Fabrics is in contact with the Good Samaritan Children’s Home on a regular basis. Weekly, Project Director Kris Wetah informs us about what is happening, what is going well, and where help is needed.
Right now the big need is for in-home pre-school teachers. Pre-schoolers who live in the orphanage have not proved to be ready for first grade at age seven. With two official languages in the country, and numerous regional languages, spoken, children need to be fluent speakers in the official languages. They may come to the home only speaking their regional language or need special tutoring in English or Swahili. The children need to be familiar with numbers and letters, to be able to sit still during story time and follow directions, and all those other things we learned in kindergarten.
Private schools offer pre-school, but that is too expensive for the orphanage. A solution would be to hire one or two certified pre-school teachers to teach the classes at the orphanage. We know that such a project is too expensive for our small organization to provide, but we would like to find some partner organization that would help us address this problem.
On a happier note, the older children are home for their holiday, happy and well fed and preparing for the first quarter of the new school year, which you have made possible with your donations of tuition and shoes.
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