My working place was closed and will be closed until next Monday so I went to the Mahapusu which is a juvenile jail for the young people who have committed some crimes. Their ages vary between 11 and 17 and there mostly boys there but also some girls. The boys have one bedroom which they share and the girls share the other bedroom. Then there is one classroom and a playground. There are usually many volunteers there; right now three in the morning and two in the afternoon.
The reasons why the kids are there are many: robbery, burglary or even murder (that's not common). Sometimes the reason is the family with so many problems it's better for the kid to stay some where else. Some of the kids have been in school but some haven't so when trying to teach them it's not easy. The staff there don't tell you much about the backgrounds of the kids so you have to find out by yourself, can the kid read or write in Swahili and/or in English at all. Every kid here needs English because in the secondary school they have all the teaching only in English.
I talked with the "boss" there over an our and tried to understand the system they have here. We have for some reason difficulties to understand each others but finally we got the understanding. I suggested that we schould make some kind of a plan how we schould teach the kids. I told it's vast of time if we do not do the teaching in a systematic way. So now the plan is that we devide the kids in three levels in every subject - at least in English and Swahili. We also want to have more lessons, right now there is only one lesson in the morning and one in the afternoon. I went to center today to in order to buy some kind of a book for reporting but I didn't remember it...(in spite of that I went to a western store and bought cheese - that's something I haven't eaten here at all. And it was so good!)
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