Ongoing AfterSchool Tutoring for 70 orphans in BIH

BOSANA FOUNDATION

After School Program Report

October – December 2016

Number of volunteer instructors: 15

Average number of participants/beneficiaries: 60

Number of workshops held: 3 times a week for two hours  

Type of classes held: Intro to Math, English, German, Bosnian, physics, chemistry, Agro & Eco math and extracarricular activities such as handcrafts and jewelery making.

Program Summary:

During this reporting period, the instructions were geared towards helping beneficiaries prepare for the end of the first semester exams while also providing them some fun extracurricular activities to balance the stressful period. The attendance was higher than usual due to exams. This posted a bit of a problem managing all beneficiaires to make sure that everyone received the help that they needed; however, the results were very good based on beneficiaries final grades.

Instructive lessons

During the months of October, November, and December there was a huge interest from the beneficiaries to focus the instructions on mathematics. Five instructors worked with primary and secondary school beneficiaries. High school students were the most interested in this because the majority wanted to improve their grades in order to be accepted to the university. The most active was Sofija, high school senior, whose plan is to continue her education at one of the universities in Sarajevo. She had low grades in math because she didn't have anyone to explain it in more detail. Sofija was dilligent and overcame all the obstacles and improved her grades. Besides math, beneficiaries also had issues with subjects like physics, chemistry and English language. Our volunteer Adisa worked with beneficiaries who have issues with the English language. She worked twice a week with grammar and spoken English.

Creative workshops and IT

From October do December we included IT workshop where they learnt how to work with programmes such as Adope Photoshop, then how to programme with C++, JAVA and htmls and how to create their own web pages. The participants were highly interested in workshops where they could learn interesting things about different IT languages.

Aside from the IT workshops, like every other quarter, we also organise classes on sewing, how to make their own jewlery and decorations. At the sewing course, we had 5 girls learn how to work with a sewing machine and sew some simple items.

Pastime, social events and holiday shows  

Part of the afterschool program was to prepare a fun party in preparations for the New Years,. All the volunteers and beneficiaries were invited to have some fun together over refreshments and fun interactive games.                                                                                    

Achievements in this quarter:

• Thanks to this program, children from the orphanage spend less time on the streets and more time in the classroom taking part in productive and fun activities.
• High interest of children to regularly do homework, study and learn
• Some of our high school beneficiaries are now much close to being college students
• Free time used productively through creative workshops
• Talents were exposed in workshops
• Boys and girls showed great interest towards IT
• Children are now apt to perform hands-on work skills they acquired in the workshops

Plans for the future month:

• Instructional lessons, following the success of the children in school an assisting them
• Foreign language learning
• Children acquiring the skills to be self-sufficient
• Educational and strengthening the children's home children
• Creative workshops, quizzes