Jan 25th, 2011 01/25/11 | Community Stories

From Taught to Teacher; Closing the CCF Circles

It's a warm evening and the noise from the long working day sounds from over the walls but goes unnoticed by the 30 or so youngsters, who sit, new pens and notebooks to hand, in their new school, the 5th of CCF's satellite schools designed to give those with no or minimal schooling a serious foot on the educational ladder. The satellite schools now have some 250 children enrolled and are an embedded part of CCF, but there is something different about this school tonight. It's not the equipment, which remains basic. It's not the subject matter, which remains Khmer and opportunity enhancing English. It's the teachers and the assistants. Confident, healthy, cheerful, direct and ever helpful these young men and women are no ordinary teachers – they are part of CCF's emerging generation, teachers who, as CCF kids themselves, learned their own lessons with CCF, most of them from the earliest days. This cohort of helpers are sharing more than their knowledge, their English or their developing teaching styles. To the children they teach and joke with, to the regular teachers they work with and to the sponsors who have supported, encouraged and loved them, they are clear proof that CCF is working. Those who have received now give. CCF is coming of age. 25.1.2011.Photo1 25.1.2011.Photo2 25.1.2011.Photo3 25.1.2011.Photo4
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