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A New Year and New Projects

I am very pleased that, despite being gone for a longer time, I could immediately resume with my various jobs and that the planned projects will quickly get rolling again and can be realized shortly. The new inspector, M. Totala Dehiou, who is responsible for all the kindergartens in and around Sedhiou, is very committed and also interested in our way of beneficial teaching for preschool children. Our discussions are starting to bear fruit and are leading to specific steps of procedure.

From February 2022 on, there will be training sessions with the teachers in the various kindergartens on the topic of "play materials". The training sessions will begin in stages. After each introduction, I will accompany the lessons until both the teachers and the children understand how the games work and can use them without any problems.

At the same time, under the leadership of my project partner, Elhadji Dieme, we are beginning the most urgent constructions of new classrooms, which are lacking in some already existing kindergartens. The meager temporary rooms made of bamboo mats are no alternative, they prevent a conducive teaching and are often even in a critical condition.