Nigeria - Prismoni School, Lagos.

Educational supplies, desk top science books, teachers' lesson notes and resource information sent to Prismoni School. The school was established in 1975, has 36 teachers at 900 pupils in nursery, primary and secondary levels. Situated on the outskirts of Lagos it delights in being able to assistance those children who are financilly challenged.

Nigeria Resource Sharing Network

Support sent to assist 25 students with the mentoring induction programme.
Best wishes to them all.

South Africa - Jenny visits.

Friends of Goboti

Just had a packed three week visit to Goboti in South Africa during September, making plans for future work

Primary school children ready for class at Upper Enduku and very happy to be in their new dry school.

The old school, damp and dark, which they will soon be able to leave behind.

Showing off the wall of the new school which the mothers had just painted.

Nigeria Resource Sharing Network

Hi


Trust your week has been good, happy weekend!!

Last week Friday, was such an awesome day for all of us who visited

high school students within the metropolis of Lagos. We had a Mentor

visit the students in their schools....:) . Find pictures attached...

It was such a refreshing time, as "Le Dynamique Professeur" Samuel

Ekundayo fed the youths with inspiring words of life and of wisdom.

Samuel E, profoundly called Ldp is an exciting young man who left the

shore of Nigeria some years back, started his PhD degree at the age of

23!..and still matching on....dreaming on and on....He is such a young

professional with a good spirit and sound mind who is so passionate of

young people. Starting PhD at such a young age is a 'mirage' and

almost impossible in this part of the world, and reasons why this is

so, aren't far fetched, and i know those of us in here, can attest to

it.....ASUU strike, unstable educational system, etc.

The decision to have him as our Guest Speaker was to inspire a cadre

of young people. Already, enough has been said about the distractions

our youths face in the society, the pressure to be a millionaire

overnight without having to work for it, the negative influence of

entertainments, technology, models etc.Truly, some of them have very

bad role models and all these are eating deep into their lives and

systems.....Most recently, due to the new education policy by the

Lagos State Education Board, a very high percentage of SSS 2 students

couldn't make it into SSS 3. Now, we have very few classes of SSS 3 in

most public schools in Lagos State....and very few students, compared

to what we used to have in time past...I know this might be a strategy

to raise qualify students to write the next WAEC exams....let's hope

things work out as planned. :) But, my concern in here, is that while

most of these young people were demoted because they couldn't pass

specified compulsory courses.....it's saddening that majority of these

students REFUSED to go back to repeat their classes....the new policy

hit them real hard and at such.....they find it difficult to repeat

classes only because they didn't pass English and Mathematics at

once!They choose not to register into their new classes and decided to

completely stay away from school....

Now, the concern is ....what is the future of such kids....who have

decided to stay off school....?

Yesterday, we were able to visit two schools and we were gladly met by

their Principals, School Counsellors and teachers, We sincerely hope

that our objective of exposing these kids to successful young

professionals like Samuel would help them think straight and know that

whatsoever the mind can conceive, it can ACHIEVE.....but, they've got

to DREAM ON....and keep their dreams alive....

We look forward to visiting more schools this coming week....

PLS NOTE:

Our next Mentoring cycle begins in November and our annual Orientation

Forum has been post poned from the 23rd of this month to the 6th of

November, 2010. And, due to the greater number of Mentees/Students

that we've got to reach out to, we hope to pair more than ONE mentee

to a MENTOR. Hence, we would like to read from as many of our Mentors

who would prefer to mentor more than one students.... pls send us a

mail.



Thank YOU.

RSN -Reaching out to YOUNG PEOPLE

Nepal - Metta Centre

Congratulations to the Director Staff and our daughters on celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Metta Centre.
Our daughters get more beautiful by the day.

More photographs can be seen here.

http://www.unesco.8m.com/New2005/mettaoctober2010.wmv

A Ray of Hope

Sorry for the delay in the updates as life has been rather hectic.
Updates not in any order but as they come to me.
1. Thank you to Ann for her donation of many toys and packed pencil cases ideal for Hungary/Romania amongst other places. Thank you
2. Metta Centre Nepal celebrates its 10th anniversary - photographs to follow ( new traditional costumes purchased for all of the girls )
3. Jenny returns from her projects in South Africa - photographs to follow
4. Next trip to Belarus November - gardening equipment for the special school for diagnostics and leotards for the school for art and music supplied by David Tyler Trust and Roch Valley resp. Thank you
5. New FaceBook group A Ray of  Hope another strand for friendship.
6. Melanie attending the first Romani Women's Conference EU  in Barcelona
7. New video for International National Peace Day 2011 loaded on YouTube - thanks to Paula Eduarda (Brazil) Reet (Estonia) Kay (UK)
8. Seguya's parliamentary campaign progressing well in Uganda
9. "Ray" and  "Hope" thriving in Lagos Nigeria.
10. Paula Eduarda reaches the finals of Brazilian Talent Competition
11. New journal in South Korea our thanks to Serena
12. Sujata's projects developing favourably in Kashmir, India.
13. Binod organised science teacher workshops in Nepal
14. Some money becoming available soon for further support to 5 projects
15.  Gardening tools to be purchased for Lunch4Learning in Uganda
16. Monthly logos for A Ray of Hope designed each month by Snejana in Bulgaria - music composed monthly by Reet in Estonia.
17. Educational supplies sent to Ghana
18. Competition trophies sent to Sierra Leone

and we are having a bit of a lull !!!! Best wishes and thanks from us all to those who deserve our appreciation and esteem. Apologies as I am certain to have left something out.