Shelves Nyarubuye

Dear all

Had a fab week. Monday and Wednesday were bank holidays this week - so it has been a realxing time.  Tuesday was spent at the school in this blog.

One of the first things that I noticed when I visited the school was that the P1 classes were housed in very poor quality classrooms but the staffroom, book room and head teachers office were taking up 3 perfectly good classrooms.

 

I suggested that they may be able to combine these three rooms into one and enable the primary 1 classes to move into the better classrooms.  Two sponsors from the UK gave me £50 each so I said I would donate this money (100,000Rwf) to build shelves to house the books in the classroom so that we could know how many books the school had and get them into some sort of order for pupils and teachers to use.

The pictures below show the book store where books were just lying about on benches and desks in no particular order, staffroom and head teachers office.

The picture below shows the shelves that were constructed with the money from donors and the head teacher’s office which was created in the same room.

We had a huge task of moving all the books from the book store into the room with the shelves and sorting them out into subject and level.  Some pupils and staff helped with the job.   Also my moto driver helped by building supports to go between the struts in the shelving to support the books!

Pictures of the library being created.

The children were all given pens and notebooks for helping at the end of the day.

Both the staff and students were delighted with their work. We also altered some old visual aids that they had that were in French, cleaned them up changed the labels to English and hung them around the walls so that teachers could use them too.

The P1 pupils are moving into the new classrooms this week.