The Tuttor Centre

One of our projects while working here is teaching in the evenings at a “Tution center” It’s a place where street vendors children can receive free tutoring. These children are so poor! They attend regular school during the day. But the teachers work ethic at their school is so low they hardly learn anything. Instead, the teacher sends the children on errands to buy her food and work in her garden! So the children come to the tution center so they can really learn. In addition to homework help, we teach the children English (otherwise not taught at their school). The tution center is also a great opportunity to teach the children about God. I LOVE teaching the children there. I have a group of about ten 1-3rd graders. They are so eager to learn! It’s amazing to see so many eager, dark faces looking up at you expectantly with eyes shining! Their faces are bright but their clothing is torn. They sit on the hard, dusty cement, they don’t even have matts to sit on! ( I wish I could buy a bunch of them.) Their writing utensils are sad. Often only 1 pen or pencil and a small note book with a few thin pages in it. The tution center is a small building, about the size of a trailer home. It was a rickets wooden door, 2 windows and a dusty cement floor. The 2 chalk boards that hang on the wall consist of a sheet of plywood painted over with chalk board paint, leaving the writing surface rough and bumpy. They don’t even have a chalk eraser! They use tiny bits of cloth instead.

~Auds