Rusuzumiro

Jean de Dieu, the headmaster, in his office... a printer on his desk, but not electricity

The teachers of Rusuzumiro

 

The school buildings

The pupils...

Nice classrooms with a lot of light

 

Class 6 pupils

Rusuzumiro is another local primary school around those hills of the Kivu sector. Abana has allocated some funding so they can buy some books, stationary and a few other items. I have spent far less time there than at Rugerero. I have come on Saturdays to help teachers practice their English. Of course during these conversation classes, we talk a lot about their working conditions.

The school headmaster, Jean de Dieu is a very intelligent, hard-working and efficient manager. He is everything that the old headmaster at Rugerero was not and everything that I foresee Frederic will become...

Rusuzumiro has received a lot of help from Germany to build classrooms. They are indeed very well built: lots of light, strong brick walls, glass on the windows, a very big office for the Headmaster.

Today I spend the morning at the school. I have made some suggestions to Jean de Dieu as to what he could buy with the money donated. He already has a clear idea of what the school needs and soon his list will be finalised.

Unlike Rugerero this school has not been asked to teach the three extra years of ‘compulsory’ primary education recently introduced. I put ‘compulsory’ between brackets, because in reality, only a small percentage of children reaches that level... A lot of children have been lost in junior years... starting at the end of class one.