A friend wrote to me on Facebook and asked how exactly we’d be working with teachers and whether this would be in public or private schools. This is a great question! Here’s what I wrote back to her:
Our work with teachers will be in both the private and public schools, though we have the best contacts through a private school in Gulu run by Favor of God ministries. They started their school a year or so ago and serve 200 or so students in the community (including the 33 orphans who live at Favor of God’s children’s home or orphanage). We will be bringing teacher materials (we hear they are lacking in this area) and spending workshop time with the staff on teaching strategies and listening to and addressing their concerns.
We will also be visiting the Aber area (about an hour away from Gulu) and visiting World Vision staff there, visiting our sponsored children, and beginning to develop relationships with educators and community leaders in the area for ongoing work in public schools. We know less about this work because our communication with World Vision is less established and this is a new relationship between The Grove Community Church and World Vision. We will have to be patient, humble, and spend most of our time developing relationships for future trips.
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