Imagine walking through streets filled with broken beer bottles, human waste and mud after a heavy storm. Now imagine the pain of walking through those streets with no shoes on every day of your life. For many children in Africa, this is their reality. Without shoes, children in impoverished communities stop going to school to […]
Since we have a carpet in the class, our first and second graders enjoy rolling around during teaching time. As I expressed my frustrations to my colleague Mambwe, begging her for some advice as to how I could keep them from rolling; she explained that most of these kids do not have a carpet at […]
There are hundreds of government schools in Lusaka, Zambia. Most classrooms include between 70 and 80 students per grade, one teacher and a few textbooks to share among the students. A large number of students who attend these schools cannot read, even in the upper grades. Many actually fail their grade 7 exams and cannot […]