Kindfund

# In the name of Primary Education

Challenging times have come upon us as we have sought to do our best for the children under our management at Kindfund.

For the past 4 years we have been operating home schooling at Wamba with the support and cooperation of the headmaster of the local primary school where our children are registered with the Department of Education. This has for us been an expensive but as you will gather from the previous NEWS article successful arrangement achieving excellent academic results for the children.
The arrangement was entered into with the primary school because they didn’t have the resources to give the attention required to our children. Classes are between 70 and 90 children and there is a shortage of good teachers as well as other challenging aspects of the school.

Our tutoring groups were between 5 and 17 (average 12) using unqualified tutors who are committed and studying themselves to achieve teacher status.

A local Education Officer has insisted that we amalgamate our children from their small groups at Kindfund into these huge unmanageable classes much to the distress of the children, our tutors and management. All in the name of Education when it is obvious that the children will be adversely impacted academically and behaviourally by the arrangement.
Despite our best efforts to enlist support from Government Officials to what is an obvious retarding step for the children we have had to comply to stay within the law.
The summary below was prepared to brief the Education Officer in the hope of reaching a compromise for the benefit of our children but so far without result.
paper 2 for EO 200623 .doc

As the photos show the children were back in their familiar surroundings on Saturday to sit some exams and to study

Pray for an outcome which will best protect the children's interests

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