It takes courage to act. The Easter play performed by St. Abanoub students simply blew us away. We discovered some hidden talents in many of our children, in particular William, a quiet shy boy, who boldly took on the role of the main character – Jesus. The students were very resourceful. They used anything and […]
The Coptic Hospital along with our school for orphans in Zambia were invited to the International Women’s Club (IWC) of Lusaka’s Annual Charity Giving Ceremony on March 5, 2014 at Taj Pamodzi Hotel. Over 20 local based organizations received funds from IWC for the service work that they are doing in the community. This year […]
In Mini-Studio, teacher Mambwe asked students to be creative and make mammals out of materials since they ran out of play doh. The next day, each child was to present their animal and share a fun fact they learned about it. To her surprise, some students molded animals from soil and brought them to class! […]
A friend asked me what was the one thing so far that touched me within the month that I have been here. I spoke about a young gentleman Bornface, who went to another crowded school before he came to ours (approx. 90 children in one classroom). Year after year the teachers at that school passed […]
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 […]
One day, we were working on the letter G. I asked the students to think of some words that started with the letter G as in “goat”. They came up with the following: God, going, Go TV, glory, girl, getting, green, game. I wrote each word on the […]