Third week

We are beginning to have a routine (of sorts now).  I spend part of my week in the secondary department where the 4 pupils are following an English curriculum working English school hours and terms. I am also doing some special needs work with various primary aged children some of whom have missed school due to illness. It is a very knowledge based curriculum with two sets of exams per term and league tables in year 7. Wellspring school was 304th out of 6000 schools. Unlike many schools they accept children with special needs (sound familiar?). One parent was so excited about finding a school for his son that he arrived a day early to register as he had been unable to sleep and was prepared to wait all day if necessary! School day is 7.15am until 5pm.
We go into a very deprived community twice a week to teach English and some basic literacy. We have two groups _ one of whom have had primary education and one of whom have not! We have lots of fun and in the church ( a partial roof and partial corrugated iron walls) we have learned the okey cokey and heads, shoulders, knees and toes as part of our curriculum. David does health promotion and a basic surgery behind a makeshift curtain. On two days a week when I am in school, David does physiotherapy in another community where these children rarely see daylight. One has now got his splints and we are about to deliver two standing frames and a seat specially designed for them from us.
We were asked to explain the term 'unwanted present' as there is no concept of receiving something which one does not want. Everything is so precious here so how can anything not be wanted. Makes you think.
Everyone has been having fun making pom POM's. We are completing the bean bags for community day on Saturday so no time to be bored. As we have had 24 hours without electricity, it is lucky we have solar lights!