lunch. For the first time we can have a room for doing indoor exercises for the kids.We also started a regular series of talks on our Neohumanist education with the teachers, sharing our Ananda Marga philosophy and practices. More NHE teaching methods will be introduced at the opening of the third term in September.Religious education is taught in all Kenya schools; from primary one, it is a compulsory subject. Most teachers are likely to pray together with the students in schools. Last term we had some student volunteers from Duke University, North Carolina, USA, who were visitors of the nearby Egerton University and who had a chance to share their time with the children once weekly for almost two months. An Italian margii sister Anandi also visited us and had a chance to share her art work with the children. At the last recent school holidays in August, we decided to start a Tuition Centre (for kindergarten to secondary level). The initial idea was to have a place where children could come and learn to read English but donations of story books were hard to come by so we decided to open a Tuition Centre. Every other child in Kenya takes tuition during school term even so during school holidays. Another reason was also to give jobs to the unemployed qualified teachers. Despite the rush, it was successful and we intend to continue with the project. The profits will go to further education on NHE values for the community. |