A fellow volunteer and myself have taken two groups of students on two school trips, one to the nearby World Heritage Site "Tsodilo Hills," and the other across the river to Sekondomboro for a camping trip.
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| The kids at Tsodilo Hills. |
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| Transport in the back of a flatbed truck, how else? |
From the camping trip:
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| They were able to ride in traditional dug-out canoes, known as "mokoros" |
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| The other PCV was teaching how to skip rocks while waiting for the ferry to go home. |
I also teach an art class with Standard 1 (first grade) students once a week. Here are some photos from when we made paper hats and did potato printing.
I meet with the Environmental and Health Education Club at the primary school once a week as well. We do different activities to teach about the environment, which is especially important for these students living on the banks of the Okavango River.
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| The club (yep, that's a Chinese student who also lives in the village. A lot of small shops in this country and others surrounding it are actually owned by Chinese families.) |
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| Playing a game like "Marco Polo" where the blindfolded child yells "bat" and the others run around the circle yelling "moth" in response. The game teaches the kids about bats and how they use echolocation to find food. They had a blast! |
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| We used a program called Grass Roots Soccer to teach kids about HIV/AIDS and also malaria. In this game, the blanket represents the bed net, while the ball is the mosquito. The kids had to fit under the "net" and avoid the mosquito. If they were "bitten," they had to go and high five the designated doctor at the local clinic to get treated. |
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| I have been working to start Youth Friendly Services at my clinic to provide psychosocial, sexual and reproductive, and general health care specialized for children and teens. It's a project in progress, but we are working hard. |
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