October Volunteers: Joe Moore and Juleen Rodakowski
Meet Joe Moore and Juleen Rodakowski, who have been volunteering here for over a week … teaching and working with a group of local children.
Joe and Juleen prepared an excellent program for their daily class, consisting of a variety of different activities, interspersed with time on the playground.
Literature, reading and comprehension figured strongly in their teachings.
Part of each day’s class would consist of a craft session focussing on an aspect of education. On this day, the children are making a mobile that illustrates what they dream of accomplishing, what they are working towards, when they finish school.
For the children, the highlight of each afternoon was their English class … they love it … and they participate with great enthusiasm, not only repeating the words, but writing them in the notebooks that several of them began bringing after the first day’s class. Most kids here know that a working knowledge of English will move them rapidly up the employment ladder if they are lucky enough to obtain work in tourism when they finish their educations.
One of the modules that Juleen and Joe taught was on garbage and the importance of keeping their neighborhood clean. They made a game of cleaning up the entire block to see which team could find the most garbage, and made badges to say that they are members of the “I Do Not Litter” Club.
It was a great week!! Thanks Joleen and Joe!