Connectedness
I did my ‘Strengths Finder’ a year or so ago. One of those personality tests that gives you a print out of how you carry yourself in the world and the way it impacts others. Apparently my number one strength is ‘Connectedness’…this is taken from the blurb about what that means. Yes, we are individuals, responsible…
Would you have to take your daughter out of school if she couldn’t see the board?
I had a email from one of the principals we work with in rural Fiji this morning. It went like this: One request. We have a girl in F3 (year 9 AU), Pritika, who comes from a very poor family. She did not come to school in the last two weeks of Term 2 or…
Rural schools, red tape and island time.
One of the schools we work with in rural RakiRaki lost 8 of its classrooms in a fire last week that they believe was deliberately lit. 3 of the girls we support are among 180 students who now have to cram into a hall for lessons until the rooms can be rebuilt, which will potentially…