In the evening I went over to the girls' hostel. There are 44 girls who live together in the hostel next to the school.
For their safety, they are locked inside during after-school hours.
So while the kids from the boys' hostel get to play out in the village...
the girls are behind their gate.
From 6 to 8 pm is study hall. This is what I found when I went over at 6. They don't move from this position for two hours! The little ones write the letters of the alphabet and numbers, then recite it to themselves over and over.
The bigger girls mostly copy from their books into their notebooks; that's what students here spend much of their study time doing (at school too). They also memorize. They desperately want to learn how to read English, but most of them can't yet. They move their fingers from word to word on the page and just say something.
In an effort to improve the school's status, Little Flower switched from a "Hindi medium" school to an "English medium" two years ago. But the kids don't know English. The teachers can mostly read enough English to explain the meaning from the textbooks (which are now in English) to the students. But they don't speak much English, so classes are still held entirely in Hindi.
There's a lot of work to be done, but the kids are eager for knowledge.
This is the girls' housemother.
The bigger girls go over to the main building (where the school is, and the kitchen) to fetch dinner.
The boys are there too, with their own pots.
For their safety, they are locked inside during after-school hours.
So while the kids from the boys' hostel get to play out in the village...
the girls are behind their gate.
From 6 to 8 pm is study hall. This is what I found when I went over at 6. They don't move from this position for two hours! The little ones write the letters of the alphabet and numbers, then recite it to themselves over and over.
The bigger girls mostly copy from their books into their notebooks; that's what students here spend much of their study time doing (at school too). They also memorize. They desperately want to learn how to read English, but most of them can't yet. They move their fingers from word to word on the page and just say something.
In an effort to improve the school's status, Little Flower switched from a "Hindi medium" school to an "English medium" two years ago. But the kids don't know English. The teachers can mostly read enough English to explain the meaning from the textbooks (which are now in English) to the students. But they don't speak much English, so classes are still held entirely in Hindi.
There's a lot of work to be done, but the kids are eager for knowledge.
This is the girls' housemother.
The bigger girls go over to the main building (where the school is, and the kitchen) to fetch dinner.
The boys are there too, with their own pots.
Love these pictures.
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