Greetings
from Koro,
The first
month of the year has been full of good things as well as challenges.
The
parents meeting with the teachers went very well. The parents have been
grateful for the textbooks their kids got from the school. We urged them to
oversee the use of those textbooks by the kids at home.
Teachers
have succeeded in the government test, indeed three of them are quitting us because
of success on the government test to go into public teaching. Many teachers
quit the private teaching because of the pressure to get a good result while at
the public school there is not much requirement of efficiency and results. As
we give continuous training to our teachers to be better teachers, it is
understandable that they easily pass the comparative test; anyway we will
continue to train our teachers for better work as long as they are with
us.
New
teachers are getting enrolled. We thank God for the quality of teachers we are
getting and we pray that they be able to face the challenges.
Recent
events in the world and specially Boko Haram in Nigeria and the“Charlie event”
in France have changed how the kids react to the world view education courses.
We are grateful that the kids understand the principle of Devil influencing
people to make bad decision and act badly.
In
some villages around us, January and February are the months of Quran study
when some kids leave the classic school to go and study the Quran. For sure
they come back and are behind the other students as they stop coming for about
two months. Moussa Barry one of our students has done this many times. We can
still see how behind he is and how difficult to get things done at school as he
frequently asks to go out from class for religious duty.
Moussa’s
Dad is an Imam (Muslim version of Pastor) and a specialist of founding and
building Mosques. He testified to us through his brother that after he realized
how behind Moussa was, he decided to bring him where there is better teaching. We
pray that God help us to help better these kids like Moussa, returning from
Quran School.
Please
pray for the beginning of the school building project starting soon. We are now
gathering sand and bricks.
Thanks
to you all so much. You have been such a blessing to us and the people we serve
here in Koro.
We
pray that God returns to you the blessings as he promised.
Your
friend Ibrahima.
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| Moussa Barry |
