By Kristina Gologanova | Project Leader
During the second term of the school year 20 kids from 1st to 7th grade receive after-school support in Reachout. In this report we are going to introduce to you one of them.
He is in second grade. His parents are illiterate and systematically neglected him in his early age. He has never been enrolled in kindergarten and at the age of 6 he was accommodated in the orphanage. When he was accepted into the Reachout program two years ago he didn’t speak Bulgarian because it is not his native language.
At that time he was at serious risk to drop out of school. Despite all the challenges he faced he worked hard to overcome them. During the classes in the afterschool program and speech therapy in his first year at school he succeeded to learn all the first grade material and to enhance his knowledge a lot. Nowadays he likes reading fairytales and counting, and writes very diligently. His self-confidence got a major boost when his progress and achievements were noticed by the teacher.
Also, he loves to draw. Hi put his heart and soul into all pictures especially in the last ones which were included in the school exhibition at the end of the first term.
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