By Mary Clark | Project Advisor
The day when our first kindergarten in Abu Nahla village will open is fast approaching. The equipment has been purchased as per the requests of the teacher. This equipment includes a number of teacher's aids including teaching guides on mathematics, arabic, the human body, birds and animals and curriculum guides on the National Pre-schools Level 1 and 2 curriculum. The children's play items purchased include footballs, tenns balls, and skipping ropes. In addition we have purchased a large stock of drawing and maths books, coloured pencils, ordinary pencils and rubbers. Furniture has been purchased both for the children and for the teachers. The only outstanding item is the uniform for the children which will most likely be yellow long trouserrs and jacket, edged with blue.- the Kids for Kids colours. We are also providing a donkey cart which will be used to transport the children to bring them to the centre. It will also be able to be used to transport water to the kindergarten for the children and for use by the community such as transporting patients to the clinic. The community is eagerly awaiting the opening of the kindergarten, particularly the mothers who are so anxious that their children should have a good education and the kindergarten will certainly gie them a good start to their learning and will prepare them well for primary school.
We are also designing a rigourous monitoring system so that we can learn from the experience of this pilot kindergarten to improve the running of this kindergarten and to guide the additional kindergartens which we hope to establish in our other villages. In particular we have asked the teachers to record the equipment which is used most and which is most popular with the children and to also indicate what other equipment would help to improve the learning environment.
We hope that all our supporters will join in the excitement of the impending opening of our first kindergarten - wothout your support we would not have reached this important day - thank you all very much - you really have made a difference to the lives and prospects of many children in Darfur.
By Mary Clark | Project Advisor
By Mary Clark | Project Advisor
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