This week has been a short week at Akany due to our long week end, Gil’s lecturing to the Medical School and going to Miara’s Admission to the Bar Ceremony. Akany has been very accommodating about our comings and goings, other volunteers picking up on our duties as we do when any of them are away.

It is great to walk around the Centre being greeted by name, we wish we could remember more of their names!

We note the regular after-school activities that are offered to the children. One that seems to be very popular is traditional dance. This is taught by an elderly man who uses his voice and two sticks to create the most marvellous rhythms. The steps are simple, the girls sing beautifully as they weave their stories through dance.

(Below 2 photos of traditinal dance class)

Our petites preschoolers are a constant delight and challenge to us. We  are seeing more cooperation between these little ones and it is great to see a little one getting the idea of how to make a ball with play dough, and then begin to experiment with other shapes. They are good about sharing puzzles and most toys: the biggest conflict comes with ball play. It is a difficult concept to convey that if everyone has a go with the ball they can all have fun. Perhaps it is because they have so little to call their own.

(Photos with our Little PreSchoolers at work with Play Dough)

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