Kindergarten

When was the last time you were in a Kindergarten room? Or a preschool room? Or any classroom? The Kindergarten rooms that I am familiar with have tables and chairs or desks, lots of colorful charts, alphabets, calendars, books to read, supplies for science and nature study, art supplies, play things...all kinds of stuff.

This picture is of the Methodist Kindergarten in Lawra. Those are all broken desks piled up. The primary school will bring their broken desks & pile them here, then take ones that aren't broken. (Ed, he is trying to fix some of the desks.) The children sit on the cement floor. The chalkboard is just black paint on a cement wall. There are no posters, no crayons or paint, no paper, no books, no flash cards, nothing. Yet, class meets Monday through Friday every week....over 30 children!

What would we do in America in these circumstances? We couldn't function. But, here, the teachers work with what they have, if they have anything at all! I pray that despite the circumstances and lack of "things" that these children learn, that they would enjoy school and that they would become the men and women God wants them to be.