Visits to Target Schools in Kano

Monday, after our arrival we accompanied the IFESH Director of International Relations to a series of meetings with the

 Provost of  our host institution --Sa'daata Rimi College of Education, members of SUBEBs (State Universal Basic Education Boards), school administrators, and visits to our 5 target schools.

Our hosts received us in a most gracious manner.  (I'll write more about the warmth of Nigerian hospitality later). Mr. Mambouray expressed gratitude and gave congratulations to each school for it's accomplishments and addressed plans to continue to increase literacy rates, provide books, organize libraries and conduct teacher inservice training.

All of the schools had computer centers compliments of Intel.  The enthusiasm of the students for learning in conditions that would be more than alarming in the US was amazing.  Classrooms with 60, 70 80 students were not uncommon. In a classroom at one girl's school, about 60 students knelt or sat on the concrete floor during instruction.
We were somewhat a distraction wherever we went, drawing stares, smiles and excitement each time we aimed our cameras.


Personally I was most impressed by the Islamyia school whose foundation is Koranic studies. Their students have won national awards.

Quitting for the evening...two outages while trying to compose this. More later