Creativity Boost is back! Drakkar runs literacy workshops at Les Enfants de Dieu!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

After a brief hiatus, Creativity Boost is back!

 

Drakkar has partnered with a children's center - Les Enfants de Dieu - a home for former street children in Kigali.  We will run literacy workshops, help to build a love of reading, play creative games with the children.  The center is home to over 90 children, all boys, ranging in age from 6-19, and Drakkar worked with all of them on Saturday!

 

First the students introduced themselves by drawing a picture and sharing it with the group.  Sentence starters helped them feel more comfortable speaking English, and writing their answers down helped to build familiarity with the language.

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Next, we read a story in Kinyarwanda.  We've translated many of the Junior African Writers Series into Kinyarwanda, to improve access to readers written in Kinyarwanda.

 

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And then we read the same story in English to help build vocabulary.  We love using the Junior African Writers Series!

 

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The older children were asked to unscramble sentences in English, so that they would make sense.

 

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There were many other activities, and we will return to work the children once a month.  It was a great experience for our volunteers and the children alike, and Drakkar looks forward to continuing to build a culture of reading in Rwanda, including with the boys of EDD.

 

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