Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Service Learning

(www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol14no2/educat.htm)
I researched schools in Africa and I am beginning to gain more knowledge of the kind of education they get. This helps me with my project because it expands my knowledge of want they need and how soon they need it. Every time i read something else about the schools it inspires me to help them. It also helps me because now I really see how fortunate we are today. They have very few supplies and need more; we have tons of supplies and we destroy and write on them. They are shoved together with almost 100 kids to each class and they all sit down and keep quiet while the teacher is teaching; we have a minimum of 15 students to a class and our teacher is interrupted every 5 seconds over nonsense. Africans have o be taught in the worst weather conditions; we have heat and air and we always complain about being hot or cold. Africans have to go to school hungry several days in a row; we get offered breakfast and lunch and complain about how nasty it is. All these differences help me understand how much help they need and this is the least of their problems and they still have a whole positive attitude about things in life. They really value their education but i also want to help resolve some of the other problems in Africa. Africa are the poorest continent but i can't everyone in Africa. I wish I could.





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