This afternoon, I had made an arrangement to meet Betty Bazizani and the street children, in Gatenga which is about 4 miles from the centre of Kigali.
Betty looks after about 70+ street children, and does a great job organising them. In particular she makes sure that they are attending school, and doing well in their work. The children’s school fees are sponsored by various people in the UK.
To make sure that they are working Bette gets their school reports, which is also a double check that they are attending regularly.
My job today was to collate a few things about them, like age, how they are doing, what skills they have and for the older ones what work they want to get into.
43 of the 70 attended which was fabulous, and we saw them as a group and explained what we were doing, that we wanted to know what level of abilities we are likely to have, when they come to our college after 4th year at school.
Now shame on you teenagers in Scotland. When I ask these guys what there skills were they included carrying water – which some enjoyed, cleaning, cooking, washing dishes, and then there was the 8 year old who was skilled at business. She sells sugar for her parents.
Then there was the 13 year old who wants to be a nurse, and at the moment works in a boutique.
Once we had been through the assessment, we had half an hour playing a couple of games, which seemed to go down well. I had brought a large number of tennis balls with me from Tony Yates He was clearing out his garage before he left for England and found a large bag of them.
They are now the property of the street children of Kigali Tony.
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