The Community School

The children's home runs a school for the children in the home and also for some of the children in the community (it's about half and half).

I'll take you on a walk to school with us from the children's home. The children sing their national anthem and then file out the door (a small metal door in a large metal fence, with barbed wire across the top).

We walk them down the street and then through a path which looks like you are in the jungle.

They climb over an old stone wall and past a few more houses and arrive at the school (it's the tall building with the green roof and fenced-in upper floor). The walk takes about 3 minutes. The kids look so cute in their uniforms!!!

The school has an open-air P.E. room at the top, a large classroom on the second floor, and two classrooms, a kitchen, and the medical/dental clinic we are working on is on the bottom floor. The kids have 5 subjects: Tagalog, English, Math, Science, Bible.

The students' jobs are:
Jason: heading up the clinic (we'll all work there with him in shifts)
Lauren and Jesse: helping in kindergarten
Ashley, Lindsay, and Joel: helping in Preschool
Dan A.: helping one-on-one with a student who needs extra help
Dan K: helping the P.E. teacher

I'll be doing stories on some individual kids soon!