One week of volunteering left

Rachael: The teachers here get about 10 quid a month. Maybe you should reconsider. Being British i should imagine you will get a visa very easily! Trust me, I am looking forward to coming home and eating proper food, everything here is rice related which is one of the reasons it was nice to go to a French country, they have passion for more than just rice. What I wouldn't give for a nice burger or a pizza from salvos, or meat strudle, or chicken and roast potatoes aaaaaagggggggggghhhhhh...
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Anyway, there is only one week of volunteering left before we go back to Elmina in the south for a week to learn more about the slave trade. We will also be going to a safari next sunday.
With one week left to go I have to wonder how much effect what I have done will actually make. I hope that what I have done in terms of time-table and a change in the teaching style for some of the teachers will help to improve that quality of the education that the girls get but in reality I know that only time will really tell.

Other people have been writing really long documents, I've taken the opposite approach this week and written the teachers ten commandments, a one page guide with explanation of each of my commandments. The sole reason of doing this was to empower the teachers as most of the commandments really just relate to being confident, installing confidence in the girls and also being willing to be experimental with what they teach, or more to the point how they teach it.

Tzedek worker Dan has visited Gigdev and explained that whilst Tzedek might not have so much money this year he is still hoping that he will be able to give Gigdev something. This is good because I think Gigdev has got a very strong outreach and that money towards micro-credit projects would help them make this outreach stronger. Once again, as with everything, we shall have to see what happens. Nothing that is done or said here is written in stone.