USAID here we come!

Our networking has expanded.  Our friend Samantha, the Country Director for Room  to Read, suggested we contact Conrad  the Province director for Time to Learn,  a USAID funded project that works with community schools.  He volunteered to drive over to Castle Lodge to meet us and we hit it off immediately.  He has 67 community schools to track and mentor.  He had visited our Chipulukusu and Kasompe schools and wants them to become model schools where he can send head teachers to see good schools in action.  How about that!  His focus for the next 6 months is Literacy and he is sponsoring monthly workshops for teachers. He also just happens to be the one that reports findings to the Ministry of Educarion from whence good things like books, desks and supplies come from :-).  When we arrived at our Kasompe school we found out the training for that area had been held in our new classrooms the weekend before and our head teacher, Loveness, had been one of the instructors.  Whoo  Hooo!  How exciting to be identified as model schools!