Some time earlier, on November 3rd Natalia Ćwik (coordinator) visited the school and made the students familiar with the project of Kogere Primary School renovation, which we are currently implementing in western Kenya. In the meantime the walls of the school corridors were decorated with the photo exhibition from East Africa.
ProAfrica Day – that is what the event was dubbed – was supposed to bring African culture and tradition closer to students. On that day several classes had an opportunity to participate in an English lesson carried on by an African Steve Sambali, who told many interesting stories about the place he comes from.
After classes there were many attractions prepared for those who wished to stay. The school corridor turned into colorful, vibrant with life African street. Everyone could try on African fabrics and ornamentation. Girls were delighted with extraordinary Masaai decorations, boys with pride presented shield and a spear.
Students from secondary school had a possibility to see a documentary from West Africa, and their younger fellows took were taking part in the games of antagonistic “tribes” and checked their knowledge by doing crosswords and brain twisters. In the next classroom young artists created masaai-like colorful beads decorations. Also African masks made of pasteboard appeared.
In the meantime another group was practicing the steps of afrodance under Ola Kobus supervision. Kids very eagerly joined the common dance. The most chaotic place however was definitely a canteen, where students in few teams were kneading dough for east African mandazi – cakes that resemble our donuts.
We would like te express our deep gratitude for assistance in organizing the ProAfrica Day to our great volunteers: Kaja, alicja, Łukasz, Ewelina, Ola and Marysia!
See also coverage from ProAfrica day on Profuturo website:
http://www.profuturo.edu.pl/pol/content/view/302/95/
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