Ebola Happenings

Sarah is a graduate of Calvin College who spent a year teaching in the CRC School in Kabala, Sierra Leone.  She loved teaching class 3 – and fell in love with Sierra Leone.

Schools have been closed this entire school session, and the Ebola crisis has kept her from returning this past school year.  So she spent this last fall in limbo.  In January, she joined us in Nigeria.

And so I have a fellow educator here for a few months! 

School visit and chat with principal

Sarah’s goals include:

* learning as much as she can from the Nigerian school setting through classroom visits.

* learning more about teacher training.

* learn more about what is happening in literacy in schools here.

  We have been able to dialogue and reflect on her observations.  She has noted that many challenges teachers face here are ones she also faces in Sierra Leone.  She has been encouraged by teachers she has met.  I have been encouraged by her presence and have recruited her to share her experiences in SL during my trainings. We are working at planning some literacy workshops and professional development material that she can take back to the teachers she works with as well.  She is Jos now – and will join me again in Abuja in a month or so.

Thank God with me for the opportunity Sarah has to come and learn from Nigeria’s education system.

Pray for a meaningful time for her and that good connections are made while here.

Pray for those who have been affected by Ebola across West Africa.  Pray also for the eradication of the disease.

She is writing on her blog as well:  http://sarahkluitenberg.blogspot.com/

Discussion group during a training