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July 3, 2007
The school is completed, with 48 children (28 boys/20 girls) attending the school. This is part of the final report on the building of the school in Titiena.
Summary of a group meeting in the village:
This new school will be the hope of our whole community. It will be the center of growth and development of our locality; it will be the place of meeting and assembly regarding the village. It will be the base of new other projects, it will bring understanding and solidarity; reinforce respect, obedience, property. It will increase literacy rates in the village and bring development.
The literate rate will increase in our community. Some of the educated kids will be in the future very helpful to their families, to the village and to the country. Our kids will not walk kilometer to get education because the nearest village school was 4 km away. Adults, namely women, will profit from adult literacy and this will have an impact on their lives and on the whole community.
Our goals for the future are to send all the school age children to school, to find teachers because we do not have teachers for all the classes. To equip the schools with benches, so that students will not sit on the ground. We need to continue to raise awareness to the parents about the importance of education, in particular girls' schooling.
Student, age 10, when asked what education meant:
"It is the way to educate a person in the modern way. It permits to train someone to the uses and to the good manners. Thanks to education, one can read and write his/her mother tongue and even foreign languages."
Comments from Michel Samake, the Building with Books Site Manager:
From the onset, villagers have been very motivated and impressive! They unloaded all the construction materials without any damage. They worked hard, respecting the timetable. Moreover, they all had the sme purpse tha is to fight against illiteracy, to improve education and to give any kid the right to go to school.
People were so open to the USA students so that it was very sad the day the Trek team left. Some students as well as some villagers cried a lot because of the separation.
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