Invest Inc | A village based agricultural and educational development project in Malawi, Africa

volunteer

Use your gifts to help us carryout administrative and development activities that will further promote our work in Malawi. Currently, we are seeking volunteers to fill some key roles. For specific details, please contact Ryan Evans by phone 913-209-9400.

Volunteers in Action - Continued
		Working with the teachers at Sakhani Primary School outside Lilongwe was a rewarding experience and a highlight of my mission trip to Malawi with INVEST INC. This group of dedicated teachers and student teachers worked under challenging conditions. The buildings held the 8 classrooms that were simple rooms with wooden tables and benches for the students, bare walls, and one blackboard for instruction. One small closet-like room held all of their books and any supplies that they used. The 8 standards, or classes, had from 30 up to 100 students each, attendance being inconsistent. During our “seminar” held out under the trees, they were eager to discuss instructional practices and evaluation. I shared some ideas of how to use the materials that I had brought, hoping that they would be useful to the teachers in their situation. I shared laminated maps and charts that they could now hang up with ticky tack; charts and sentence strips to cover with Protecto film that would be reusable with dry erase markers; alphabet and math fact cards to use with small groups. They were so appreciative for paper, pens, markers, chalk - supplies that I took for granted back in the Columbia schools. As we pulled out of the Sakhani “campus” I was reminded that the goal/mission of teachers everywhere is to always try to do the best that they can for their students. These teachers were certainly doing that.

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