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Teachers Use: Kids Swarm and Kevin Afura

teachers use: Maybe this term we will provide the books, said Kevin Afura, who teaches at the school for 500 children operated by the aid group Save the Children, according to Metro News. They write on the ground. When it's time to practice writing skills, children sit under a tree to doodle in the dirt while teachers use a blackboard. Schooling is the latest challenge in this overcrowded refugee settlement where basic facilities like toilets are in short supply. She soon releases them to the playground, where they either swing and slide or simply go home. This school's only classroom is a tent in which dozens of kids swarm an overwhelmed teacher. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.