I think these pictures express my proudest accomplishment here in Lesotho thus far.
I worked with my Morija area ECCD teachers to write a small Friends of Lesotho grant for 500 Rand. With just this little bit of money, we were able to buy 45 litres of paint, 5 paintbrushes, and 4 dyes to color the white paint. 30 ECCD centres were painted with these supplies and I believe there is still white paint left over.
Once the paint supplies were distributed, the Bo-‘M’e divided themselves in sub-areas of Morija and spent the winter painting each others’ schools. My goal for the project was to have the alphabet painted on the walls of all the schools, but oh the teachers went beyond just the ABCs. They painted trees, children, shapes, numbers and the list goes on and on.
The Bo-‘M’e have really expressed how proud they now feel of their ECCD centres and that the children, parents and community members have all taken notice of their brightly colored schools!
Yay!!!
Also, the Bo-‘M’e are feeling more comfortable to try and speak English with me. This is HUGE! Again many of the preschool teachers that I work with have not finished high school. They feel intimidated of little white girl me, so sad! But now finally after almost 2 years they are opening up.
All of the pictures are of my visit to three freshly painted ECCD centres in the Morija area today. It was so fun speaking in my developing Sesotho, while they responded in their developing English. Overall, what an amazing day!!!
