Wednesday, September 19, 2012

I thought that this photo sums up Anani Memorial International School in many respects: they expect a lot from young children, from behavior to knowledge.  The children are taught both English and French by the time they are six or so, and their teachers expect great things of  them.

What the photo doesn't suggest is the tremendous sense of joy and love that the teachers also share with their students.  Music and clapping often breaks out in all of the classes, and the young scholars are made to feel important and precious.

Many of them are missing one or both parents and would be going to no school at all if  it weren't for this amazing school in the heart of the Nima slum.  Here's another photo, with happier faces.

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