Day 32

This past week at New Adventure was all about exams.  I spent my days administering tests and grading papers, and I made the discovery that some students are stuck far behind their classmates in terms of literacy.  There are just a few in each class, but the teachers have neither the time nor resources to dedicate to helping them catch up with their peers.  The common style of teaching here in Kenya, which involves a whole lot of rote repetition and copying of notes from the board, only enables students to hide behind classmates and continue struggling through progressively harder material.

Because of this realization, I will no longer be teaching the math, science, English, and Bible classes I was before, but instead will be working with students individually to teach them how to read.  My hope for the weeks to come is that I can at least get these students in a better position to catch up to where they should be, if not totally able to read the Rainbow Fish book I've been working with by the time I have to leave!

I am also still praying, along with many others at the school, for a permanent home for New Adventure, which will allow the feeding program they used to receive to be reinstated.  Luckily for us, God always provides!

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them.  Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Luke 12:24