Next we went with James to the school that he teaches at. The school had just relocated the kids back to this location about a year ago after having moved them into town many years back due to the war and wanting to protect the kids from being abducted. This is one of the schools that Invisible Children is partnering with. We saw two new classrooms that had just finished being built. The next step is to hopefully build another dormitory on the school grounds as the girls are squeezed into two rooms and then the boys have to walk over to a neighboring polytechnic institute in order to sleep there. If these girls in particular do not board they have a much lower chance of actually staying in school. So the headmaster really wants them to board at the school as he is very concerned about the girls. He also told us that some of the kids at the school are sponsored by IC and if they do not perform well enough they are dropped from sponsorship so they are very motivated to do well in school.
Two new classrooms that Invisible Children built in their school program.
Their current classroom.
Inside the new classroom! WOW!
The headmaster gave us all sodas so we toasted to the good time we had touring his school.
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