Investments part I

Since I've been here, I started looking around and wondering where the best investments can be made with the money I fund-raised in Belgium. 

To start, they seriously needed new material like notebooks, erasers, pencils, markers and other school material. We also decided to include a cheap 'my clear bag'. This is a plastic school map where they can put all their material and books in. These prevent that their stuff gets wet when they walk to the school during rain periods (which is common during the rain season). Underneath you can see a picture with the end result: a whole tuk-tuk full of stuff for the kids!

Besides school material, I also invested in an extension of their current curriculum. They had a Let's go 1 and Let's go 2 class, but a lot of students are too smart for these classes so they need a new level (which they didn't implement yet). Together with the teachers we decided to buy the Let's go 4 books for the students. They really check out the cheapest way to work with the books, so they only buy one real version of the book. The other part is copied from that original example. By working this way it only costs $1 per book! Besides adding a new curriculum, we also copied the student books for the other classes (Let's Go 1, 2 and Elementary). They have all their books for all the classes for the upcoming year!

              

 

Besides an extension of their educational curriculum, the school also needed reading books. Till now, the kids never read any books so we carefully selected various books to get them reading! And it works! The kids are eager to read the stories by carefully following the words with their finger :)

In the future they want to build a library to boost their reading skills even more, I'm glad we were able to give the first push with the raised money! ;) In total I invested approximately $740 on all the school books, reading books and material. 

Thanks for the financial support to everyone who helped to make this possible!