The last three weeks have been as hectic as usual. Namibia celebrated its Independence recently and the kids have been busy with school. The holiday and busy school schedule meant our Friday program had to be adjusted. However, last Friday, sixteen children arrived eager to review their evaluations they filled out weeks before. This activity helped them in many ways by having them hear English from the volunteers and helping understand what mistakes they had made. The volunteers helped increase understanding and asked the children more questions to expand the learning process. The volunteers have begun to brainstorm more accurate ways to assist the children through this process. One in particular was to have the children translate the English answers into their home language and vise versa. It appears young or old, we are all benefiting from this program.
Gabriel Armandu our Otjiherero to Otjiwambo translator.
Our Otjiwambo to English translator
After the impromptu language lesson, we gathered for a game of Adam and Eve. The main purpose of the game was to continue to build relationships between the kids and adults and to simply have some fun.
The children playing Adam and Eve.
As a side note, the evaluations indicated the kids are interested in learning about computers, math, English, bike riding and basic health. The observations from the volunteers have indicated that we must focus on English skills at first to facilitate the instruction of the other needs. As a result, our current focus is English speaking and writing. Finally, we will not meet this Friday due to the long Easter weekend. I wish you all a Happy Easter.
Uhara Nawa
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