{"id":433,"date":"2009-05-18T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educate-peru.org\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:41:00","slug":"look-what-we-have-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educate-peru.org\/es\/look-what-we-have-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Look what we have here!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, it\u2019s the extension to Saxlingham St Mary\u2019s in Pachacutec. It\u2019s only half finished, as (just for a change) the government still aren\u2019t paying the teachers, so the building money that Coprodeli were putting in, is now paying the teachers. However, this is what all<\/strong> the donations received from the Bishop of Norwich\u2019s Lenten Appeal will be going towards \u2013 and how worthwhile is that? There are now 280 children (we had 120 last year) up to 11 years old, in the classrooms which are habitable, if unfinished. The new dining room, which is the long room on the top of the new building, with its bright blue roof (so it can be seen from a long way, as it\u2019s for the community too) will have to stay \u201crustic\u201d, that is, without windows and doors until we have more money. Likewise the rest of the new part. Still, the emphasis is and always will be, on the actual education. So the classrooms are unfinished and unpainted, but the children are in there, being taught every day, by teachers who are receiving a half pay and hoping for the rest, eventually. That sort of dedication is rather rare in my experience. As is the afternoon \u201ctalleres\u201d, workshops, which provide the kind of \u201ceducation\u201d which we consider \u201cnormal\u201d, but which here, simply does not happen and definitely not in places like Pachacutec. So the older children stay till 5pm and do theatre, music and English for now; later there will be P.E added (no teacher afforded at the mo.) and other skills-based activities. No wonder the children hang about and don\u2019t want to go home! So it was when I arrived \u2013 the ones who know me came rushing out of their seats to greet me, much to their teachers\u2019 consternation, who didn\u2019t have a clue as to who I was.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The old 4 classroom building is now \u201cunited\u201d with the new building by a sort of amphitheatre effect, as a way of accessing the different levels without taking out more mountains of sand. It was used as seating later that week (my 2nd visit) for the audience present at the Mother\u2019s Day celebration. The poor builder, one of the dad\u2019s, carried on laying steps and mixing concrete while the whole performance was going on! The children \u201chelped\u201d by rushing up and down his newly-laid steps and putting hand prints on the wet concrete!<\/p>\n

You will probably have noticed how there is now street lighting (where the school is anyway) and there is asphalt being laid on the main road sections \u2013 no pavements of course, just a streak of asphalt in the sand. Still, it\u2019s all progress. I\u2019ll write next time with the Scouts\u2019 event. They are coming to hold a Reading Campaign in the school. We are hoping to find enough literate mothers to help run a Scout group, after some suitable training. Vamos a ver! Love Jillx<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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