Volunteers Help Improve Children’s English
English Speaking Volunteers
Even if you have no teaching skills or other qualifications, but simply have a western education, then you can do such a lot to help both children and adults alike in Africa. There are five schools within walking distance of the Lodge with pupils aged from 2-20 and they all are wanting practice with speaking English and thus get better grades in their exams.
The lessons in the two senior schools are supposed to be wholly in English but often teachers find they have to keep translating. In the primary schools – some of the teachers themselves do not speak good English.
I met the child in this video when he was staying in Ruhanga during the holidays and he spoke more English than the 20 or so local ones all put together
Here is Moses, a schoolboy from another town, who has benefited from having volunteers at his school.