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[Overseas News] School supplies provided to Matare, Kenya, Africa
School supplies provided to Matare, Kenya, Africa
World Educational Cultural Aid WECA (WECA, 02-2689-3959,www.weca.or.kr)
▷Children holding textbooks delivered with precious donations from sponsors cannot hide their happiness.
The World Educational Cultural Aid (WECA) visited Mathare village, northeast of Nairobi, Kenya, Africa to meet children. Kenya is said to be the world's largest slum area along with the Philippines. This is to provide educational support to children living in a poor educational environment in a place second only to the Kibera region, which is famous for its location.
The environment here is much worse than that of other rural slums, making it an “urban slum.” The Mathare area I actually encountered was also a typical slum filled with tin houses. It had an appearance. Under the sun-drenched tin roof, the combination of damp moisture and scorching heat made it difficult to breathe, but the people of Matare lived calmly. There was.
Zion Mathare School was built in the middle of the tin houses in the slums. It looked completely different from what we thought of as a school. We were in a situation where there was no playground on a small site, and we were expanding the number of classrooms by purchasing temporary tin houses one by one. In such a harsh environment, children can run around and play freely, Can you paint your dreams to your heart’s content?
Because there were more children than the building could accommodate,Every space looked cramped and pitiful. The hallways are narrow, making it difficult to stand in two lines.The stairs look like they will collapse at any moment.
When adults try to pass, they have to wait for students to pass by at a distance.
Mathare school children.
However, I was able to come to school and play with my friends, so I was bright despite the harsh environment. I thought, if we give these children a better educational environment, how will their future and the future of this country and Africa change?
We presented new textbooks and school supplies to children who had never received proper formal education or experienced arts and physical education classes. The Mathare children, who have never had a book of their own, looked at it in fascination and soon refused to let it go. This is because the cost of three textbooks in Kenya (about 2,000 shillings) is more expensive than one semester's tuition (1,500 shillings).
▷ With the precious donations of our sponsors, we delivered invaluable books and school supplies to children.
▷ At the thought of giving new textbooks to the students, the teacher’s expression seemed lighter and happier.
I feel sorry for the Mathare children who gathered in a damp classroom without proper sunlight to learn something without even a meager textbook or school supplies. WECA sponsors various educational activities for children at Sion Mathare School in these harsh environments.
Every warm gesture from our sponsors can change the future of the children here. Thank you to everyone who has helped us open a bright future for Kenyan children, and please give us more strength to create a better educational environment than we have now.
To help break the vicious cycle of poverty, to change the reality through education that children cannot escape on their own, and to help children continue to dream and study to their heart's content in an educational space of hope, we ask for your interest and participation through regular sponsorship.
WECA, the World Educational Cultural Aid, will protect learning opportunities at Sion Mathare School so that more children can learn and dream in a better environment. Please join us!
