Underprivileged Children's Center(UCC)

The school that I was able to work my last week at was called Underprivilege Children's Center(UCC).  It was started by a man named Billa, who 12 years ago started teaching some of the local kids who didn't attend school.  They would meet under a mango tree where he would give lessons in English, teaching them the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, etc.  They now have a building with 6 outdoor classrooms and have a partnership with a company in the UK, who sponsers the children who pass the exam to attend a regular school. 

This is one of the classrooms.  They are about 8x8 or 10x10 and don't have enough chairs, desks, or tables for all the children.  As you can see the walls don't go up to the roof and there are no doors, so there never any quiet time.  Kids come in and out of classrooms, go out of the school grounds, are constantly running around and yelling.  The lack of structure is so evident and has to be detrimental in the success that the students see in a timely manner.  For example, the last day I was there, I had to give reading assessments to classroom 3 to find out what level they were reading at.  We had to do this outside where the kindagarten class meets because they don't have a classroom and were constantly interrupted by kids wanting to read with us.  It was hard to give an accurate assessment in these conditions. 

The following are pictures of some of the students.  They love to get their pictures taken and got so excited to see their faces on the screen.