Helping Rwandan Children out of Poverty

Dear friends,

I personally write to you to thank you for Muko and HATW partnership. I am one of Muko teachers and I have been observing your different aids to Muko since 2010.

“Little by little an egg will walk” Muko was unknown school in terms of performances but due to your support: teaching and learning materials you give our school, different trainings you give teachers from our sector, aids for nursery, renewing the classes, painting rooms, the wall you recently started…

In Rwanda before 1994, English was not taught at primary level and only a few secondary schools taught it. This was due to the fact that Rwanda became a French speaking country after the Belgian colonization.

After 1994, many Rwandans came from exile with English language background in the way the government of Rwanda realized that there was need to teach English in schools at all levels. The government further decided to consider English as one of the national languages and a medium of communication in line with globalization because English is widely spoken in the world.

However teaching and speaking English encounter some problems like lack of text books, teaching and learning materials and well trained teachers.

Ceri’s visit to Muko was needed to enhance our capacity to teach and speak more efficiently English language. We were first nervous to speak to Ceri but two days later every teacher was excited to be trained by him. He is a skilled teacher with methods that were encouraging us to participate actively. He developed our speaking, listening, writing and reading skills. I appreciate how he uses the learner-centered method. I would like to ask you to send him again in November to help us.

I would also like to invite HATW to look how you can connect our school to one of UK schools whereby our students can exchange ideas through letters and emails later.

Thank you!