KICUKIRO Catch-Up School Visits

KICUKIRO Catch-Up School Visits by Henry Destin:

Studying is one of the important things in life; everyone likes it and needs it, however unfortunately in life we don’t always get everything we need or don’t get in the right time.

The great thing is that those who weren’t lucky enough to get a chance to do primary education the first time around, are now able to join a ‘Catch-up School’. Here they use 3 years to cover the 6 years of primary education.

Children studying in one of the classrooms.

We visited one of these catch up schools that is in KICUKIRO district in the GATENGA sector.

We helped both the children and teachers, by splitting into four different areas – one for the teachers and three for the children. 

Each of the three groups for the children had a different lesson prepared: hygiene, music and HIV/AIDS. These were taught to the children according to the three different levels they are split up into in the catch up school. These groups consisted of one UKV and at least one ICV. 

One UKV stayed to help the teachers with their English communication skills – they were a little bit nervous and shy but after two hours things had completely changed and they didn’t want us to leave because of how helpful the conversation had been.

After everything related to studying we met and played different games when we taught new games and they also taught us other games that we didn’t know, that was so fabulous and everyone enjoyed that time. 

Playing the 'One-Knee' throw and catch game! - This got really intense with their being three tennis balls at one point.