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| A long over due up-date on what is happening with Pauline and Alan and | |
the Pan Bila project. |
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| Burkina Faso - Possible Project for the St. Michael's Team | |
| You will see from the photo that the playground is non-existant, it also has some rocks in it which need clearing away. They would like to have a playground (perhaps a bit like ours back home) but very basic. Anything for the kids to play on. Things to hang from or maybe climb (but not high or dangerous as it's just hard ground underneath). They have a vision for what they call "a tower" . Like a 2-story castle. This would be made of bricks, whilst some of the other things could be made of metal or wood or even plastic (but the termites get into wood). They have to survive the rainy season, where the rain is hard, heavy and fast, and the ground may have flash flooding. July and August are the heaviest months. | |
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| Exterior of class rooms | |
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The nearest park area at Ouagadougou,too far to walk |
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| PROJECT 2 CYCLING PROFICIENCY TYPE ROADWAY | |
The second project is to build a roadway for their "education routière" This is to be a roadway system, to train the kids how to use the roads safely with bikes. They have 35 bikes and hope that one day they may also have some go-carts. They have already planned it out, as you can see from the photo.This is also an important project, because the roads are so dangerous here, and the reason for that is that there are hundreds of mobylettes and bikes on the road driven by people with no real understanding of safety or respect for the highway code! So teaching kids to ride safely, keeping to the correct side of the road for a start, and stopping at red lights, would be great, and could save many lives in preventing accidents. |
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| Roadways outlined | |
There are presently no sport facilities and we talked about the possibility of a volley ball court close to the school and a football pitch on another part of the grounds. We also suggested little goal posts somewhere for the younger children to kick about around. Painting the Classrooms Thursday the school children are not in school so it would be the only day to paint the classrooms but it is a posibility. There are three classrooms that need painting. Items for Kindergarten We have taken a photo of every item the kindergarten has in the way of toys so more of these would be good. No probs secondhand but clean and in good order. Nothing that needs batteries or electricity as batteries are too expensive to replace and there is no electricity at the school. |
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| Kindergarten | |
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Wooden puzzels are popular |
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| These are ambitious projects and we are considering all the options, not | |
| least the funding! Pauline and Alan have been very supportive and | |
| encouraging. | |
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