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| Makuyuni Primary School Classroom |
What can I do? How can I help? How do these kids ever get ahead in life? These are questions that just popped into my head when we visited this school in Tanzania, Africa just a couple of weeks ago.
We went to Africa on safari and thought we would take some gifts for a village or classroom. On our first day of safari we mentioned this to our guide, Clamian, and he knew just the place to take us, to Makuyuni Primary School in a village outside of Arusha.
The headmaster, Samuel greeted us with open arms and took us on a tour of the school.
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| Headmaster, Samwel |
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| Samwel discusses the shortage of textbooks |
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| The kids held up their textbooks: Only 10 in the classroom! |
1000 students, 6 teachers, 160+ students per classroom, 3 to 5 children per desk. Order, politeness, beautiful children. No chalk, no teaching aids, maybe 4 to 5 worn textbooks per classroom.
Pencils, paper, crayons, the school supplies we take for granted, non
existent. Hence the question, what can we do, right now?
The first thing we did was leave money so they could buy chalk --- such a simple thing, we could have brought a suitcase full of chalk instead of soccer balls and frisbees!
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| Samwel accepts the Schrey's gifts |
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