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Preparing poor children for school
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Preparing children to enter school, children who have had little or no instruction, affection or discipline at home - extremely poor children, some of them feral: is a great challenge. When we first receive them and begin the long hard process of preparing them in the civilities of classroom etiquette, it is chaotic; thankless. |  |
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But little by little we progress. The children are challenged, receive affection, learn to respond to discipline, develop an appetite for learning and achieving new things. By December many of them will be ready to be registered in school for the first time, and by the following April: to put on their new school uniforms and join their new classmates. There are times when, to our volunteers, it seems an impossible challenge; but when they stay long enough to see the result of their exertions. Little by little we are changing young lives, making it possible to them to get a chance to experience a normal life; to become productive members of society: to escape the enslavement of extreme poverty. In March 2005 we registered and matriculate into school 185 children from the slums and hovels of the cities where we have our children's centres. In 2006 there will be many more. |
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