Going to Zambia: Materials at Unisport

Unisport has no money for materials, they have to do it with what they get from charity.
So we thought about how we could help them.

What I develop for Unisport at the moment is a blackboard.

Because of the new setting in the tent there are more children, and they're being taught in four different age groups. The first lessons I didn't notice that the lack of material was a big difficulty. Because the older groups (which I teach) get the blackboards.
There were 2 portable blackboards available from previous years.
We decided to add another 3 blackboards, to make sure that every teacher has one, because without teaching is even more difficult.

And on top of that, this week, ex-Cara Counseling brought us an old blackboard which we may use, so when the paint from the small ones is dry, we have more than enough blackboards for the project. And we can start focusing on collecting other materials. We always ask schools for old books and stuff, because something is always more than nothing.

Next to that I'm also making basic English lessons, which in the future can be used by the voluntary teachers, just take a lesson out of the bundle and follow the instructions, and the lesson materials are all included. This way it's also easy to have a logical follow up between the lessons in a year.

For the sports lessons in the afternoon I'm doing the same, a bundle with all sorts of sports activities, games, a lot of them will be linked to the lessons in the morning.
Where possible the sport in the afternoon will rehearse matters from the lessons they've had in the morning.
For example, in the morning they have a lesson about animals. The teacher reads them a story about animals, they get to see pictures from animals, they write and draw about animals etc.
In the afternoon the animals will be back in puzzles, games where they have to imitate an animal and so on.
From making the blackboard we had some wood left, from that wood we'll make a couple of 'baseball bats' for the younger children. So that there will be big bats and small bats, so that every child has the chance to play the game on his/her level.