Posted by Samia Omar | 22 January 2009

 

Stacks of books donated to the Ileret school.After arriving last week, the day was spent opening boxes of school material donations from a world-renowned American singer who paid a visit to the Illeret camp last year. She donated the materials after seeing the plight of poor status of education in Illeret. Other than the 500 text books opened so far, the donated materials include hundreds of bag packs, footballs, and other school stationery. I can only imagine what lies ahead when we open the boxes tomorrow. Paint bottles? Coloured pencils? I feel like a little girl unwrapping her christmas gifts. I look forward to seeing the joy in the faces of the children than will be receiveing the materials. But we are still on the drawing board on how to deliver them to all the recipient schools. With the schools being so remote and distant from the camp, I once again cross my fingers that it all works out. Tomorrow is another day...