This explains why education sometimes leaves a bit to be desired, because how can you teach 200 children at a time?
You have no option than to stand before the class and make sure that everyone keeps his mouth shut, does not ask questions and just let them write down what you as a teacher write on the board.
To make sure they listen you have a big stick which you are not afraid to use.
Also the salary is not very good. Teachers here participate in a "silent" strike by regularly not being in the classroom. They are either in the teachers room, or not at school at all, they sign the attendance register and leave again.
But this strike only hurts the children, not the one who has to pay their salaries.
As a result of this children often fall between the cracks. Also the system here is such that you automatically every year go to the next class. So it is possible to do your final examinations while you are not able to read or write properly.
We have children in our center, especially from the first and second class, who show us what they have done in school that day. All their work is marked as great. But, if for example, you ask them a simple math question or ask them what they have written down in their notebooks, they do not know.
Therefore, we have an education center at our center and we give tuition. Also at our temporary shelter we give informal education, so that when the children go back home they will not be too far behind in their schooling.
For our boys there is the added problem of being a street child with various trauma's, having been out of school for some time (some have never been to school) and often being older than their class mates.
For Upendo Daima is education one of the pillars of the work. We now want to try to start our own school, where children can go through primary school at a quicker pace and where we can guide them much better. So a challenging time for us in terms of work.
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