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A young girl of five or six sits outside a one room learning center. She is too young to be accepted into the program but she desperately wants to be included in everything her older brother is learning inside. She sits, so very, very quietly, at the door repeating every word she hears. "This is a store", she hears and softly whispers. As a teacher, I am brokenhearted that she must wait until she is of age (7) to join the class. At least, she is able to attend the public school, but many other children wander the village or do chores because their parent(s) can't even afford that. They peek in through the windows at the Learning Center, hoping to catch a glimpse of the more fortunate children who attend. Their yearning and sadness is all too obvious and it breaks your heart.
Tate author profile and mission workAfter my
third trip to this barren piece of West Africa, I felt a calling to
DO something more than just visit and teach for a
couple of months. The summer of 2013 we tried something new; not
knowing how the village mothers would respond. Every morning, we
invited all the preschool age children to meet in a donated room at
the back of the tiny village market. The mud brick walls and
corrugated steel roof made a sweltering classroom, but they came. Oh
boy did they come!! Every morning, 20-25 three, four and five year
olds would show up with huge smiles. After only a few weeks, the
village mothers were amazed at their progress! They (along with a few
goats) would find ways to peek in through the open doorway. After a
month of playing simple games, storytelling, singing and learning
activities, they would greet me in perfect English, "Good
morning, Aunty!"
Now my heart aches to go back and make this
classroom a permanent place of learning and hope. It's difficult and
expensive to travel overseas, so fundraising, along with many prayers,
is my biggest hope in returning and finishing what we've started.
Please help me raise the funds to train a teacher, furnish and
provide materials for the "least of these". Our first goal
is to pour a concrete floor !
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