March 28, 2005
Mali Field Visit, March 21-25
Here are some classroom action shots from our most recent field visit. At this point, the night-time adult literacy courses have been underway for six to eight weeks, at a rate of three to four classes per week. Each village class has two volunteer instructors, or karamogos. Both instructors received training in the samagoya literacy method from the Malian NGOs partnering with World Education. In addition, one member from each team attended the Kinkajou training seminar run by World Education before the start of the school year.
Kinkajou #131 in Kati, near Bamako
The instructors in Kati, a village about 30km from Bamako, were very creative about how they used the Kinkajou. The projected image filled one whole wall of the classroom. The result were letters over a foot tall, easy to read from any point in the classroom. This was important, as the karamogos only had one kerosene lantern for the entire classroom, making it impossible for the students to read from their workbooks at their desks.
Demonstrating image size in Digani
At another class in Digani, near Segou, we took the Kinkajou outside to demonstrate ways of changing image size and brightness for the instructor. Note that the field team, Mali staff, students and instructors are included for scale.
Posted by Timothy Prestero at March 28, 2005 12:59 PM
