Kwala Primary and Secondary Schools both have strong missions of “Education is an Excellent Asset”. And the proof is in the children running up and down the main road, bags in tow, headed to school. I saw a child as young as four or five walking by himself to a school that was about a quarter of a mile away from his home.
As you walk around both campuses, children clutch onto their education like a mother to child. It is essential to be present and acquire as much knowledge as possible…because it is integral to the survival of their community.
The schools, themselves quite humble with materials or even basic fundamental classroom offerings—are still abundant with passion and vigor for a strong educational foundation.
I was blown away with what I saw inside. And I am sure you would be too!
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Isn't it thrilling to see an entire town of children who are eager to attend school?? What a joy it would be to return next summer with a few students from Boston who could experience this type of excitement...and then bring the enthusiasm back to their friends in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan?
-Carole Copeland Thomas
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