Barry Smith - Stuff and things

I received an email this morning from a colleague in Senegal, West Africa, who has contacted me about the possibility of having some sort of educational exchange with us.  She sent a picture(above) of their secondary school, CEM Adeane, in Ziguinchor in the south-west region of Cassamance.

It brings into very sharp focus the material luxury we have in our country.  She also told me that they have no computers in the school at all and if youngsters want to access the internet they have to travel into the city(not a straightforward process with very little transport infrasturcture) to go to an internet cafe.  How easy we have it!

On a personal level I’m very keen to learn about the experience of education in semi-rural Senegal and hopefully on wider scale we can create a mutually beneficial and equal partnership between the schools, however that is some way off yet.

http://www.ukowla.org.uk/

http://www.britishcouncil.org/globalschools