March 28, 2005
Visits to Village Classrooms in Mali Highlight Challenge to Nighttime Learning
The field visit provided us an opportunity to gather additional data about the classroom environment in villages across Mali. In total we visited four classrooms over a three day period simply to feel what it's like to try to learn in this environment and to listent to students and teachers share their experiences with us.
The following document describes environmental conditions found in each of the classroom as well as interactions between students and teachers over each 2.5 hour class. A breakdown of costs related to use of kerosene laterns to provide some illumination in the classrooms also is provided.
Read the report: [Word doc][PDF]
A group of students studying their workbooks by kerosene lantern in Sébénikoro near Kati
Karamogo Drissa Fané and chalkboard exercises by lantern-light in Sébénikoro near Kati.
