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Great Support and Help - Swiss Volunteers get Involved

I am more than happy to be currently working with a real dream team in the different kindergartens. Together with a Senegalese intern, I currently have the voluntary cooperation of two volunteers from Switzerland for two months. Now we can take care of the introduction of play material in the group of four and accompany children and teachers at different playgrounds to create a versatile and joyful learning environment for the little ones. In the meantime, we are active in the 5th kindergarten, with three classes each from three to 5 years olds. The children are visibly developing and our play program is generating enthusiasm all around.

The Construction of Two New Classrooms is Done and Dusted

I am very grateful that we are able to experience a particularly hard-working bricklaying team during the realization of our new 4th kindergarten building. They are there every day, working constantly from early morning to late at a really good pace, with the same high standard quality.

Now the next stage is the roofing, windows and doors, followed by the plastering. I am looking forward to presenting the almost finished new building in a month, I hope.

A Great Wish Has Come True this Year with the realization of my projects in Senegal. To be able to dedicate myself to so many activities in a team, to coordinate and to tackle together, that is something I have longed for for a long time. After the committed Senegalese, Philomène Tine, has already been working with me as an intern since February 1, Sarina Fischer from Merenschwand and Elias Meier from Buttwil, who had already offered me their volunteer work for March/April 2022 in the fall of 2021, have now also joined me. Their commitment comes at exactly the right time, as I can now see. It makes the new challenge of introducing a varied play program in all ten kindergartens in Sédhiou much easier for me. In general, there is a lack of play material and, above all, of experience in using it for the handling of the state's new play-based learning program.

The Training Sessions for the Teachers are Bearing Fruit and we are experiencing real enthusiasm as we design and accompany the various playgrounds in the kindergartens. The children are active and full of joy and it is amazing what development we can observe in the two weeks we spend in each kindergarten. And also our hearts often leap joyfully at the so successful and beautiful cooperation. We are especially touched when the school opens in the morning, and almost 100 children run to meet us, beaming and laughing with sparkling eyes

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