By Carol Davis | President
I, along with two other volunteers from the U.S. visited the Agwata school and its library during February. It was an exciting time where we got to see the final finishing coat of paint put on the library's walls. At the same time, students and teachers were busy scheduling their library times both individually and for classes. We even had a special movie night in the library where we used the library's technology equipment to watch the Queen of Katwe movie with the 6th grade students and teachers.
We could see the library is bringing new ways of learning and teaching. We brought over 400 books with us from the U.S. as well as 21 special "book bags" made by students at a Colorado elementary school. Each book bag contained a book, and a cd player which contained the U.S. student reading the book in the bag.
Our English and literacy volunteer worked with the 4th to 6th grade teachers and classes on a variety of English teaching opportunities using the library materials. The photo we have included with this report shows the 6th graders learning how to gather information for reports they were writing in English on assigned topics.
The library still desperately needs funding for more Uganda textbooks for students. We hope to purchase more textbooks this year if funding becomes available. Books are very important, especially for 3rd to 6th graders,because the library is a place where they can come during breaks lunch time, and sometimes at the end of the day, to access and study from textbooks. During class time, often the teacher has a teacher's book for the subject and only 1 or 2 student textbooks to show students or write examples from. Library textbooks will not only help students in the library but the teacher will also be able to check them out so students can share them durng class time.
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