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Title: The Whoville Project
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Categories: Culture
Education
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
September 9 09 to September 9 14
Description:
Join the growing number of teachers who are seeking a way to make global connections a reality for their students. Project Whoville offers a rare first hand look into a different world. Your students will be drawn to explore the similarities and differences in cultures. They will learn how children live, work and play in rural Uganda. The SPACC children are just as eager to be heard and to hear from your students. Like Horton, in Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss, you will feel a compassion for people that you never knew possible. At SPACC, the motto is: "Keep the Fire". The fire stands for many things, determinations, hearth and home. It is a visible light, lighting the way ahead. Your participation will help stoke this fire for future generations.
Background:
The Whoville project was started by elementary school teacher Kathy Shields after she saw the impact the relationship had on her own 3rd grade students, to engage as many children in the world as possible to give voice to the disenfranchised children of rural Uganda at the Springs Alive Children's Centre. The image below is the slide submitted to Jennifer Wagner's Online Projects collaboration part of jenuinetech.com, which can be viewed in it's entirety at http://www.SlideShare.com" href="http://www.SlideShare.com" class="linkification-ext">www.SlideShare.com, search keyword, jenuinetech. For further reading you may enjoy the post, Horton Hears a Who? by Kathy Shields, posted on the ripplingpond blog recounting the impact SPACC had on her world view and the basis for the Whoville Project.
Objectives:
Giving: To develop confidence among displaced children. To help them earn a global voice and a place in the global community. To give them something to strive for and someone to connect to. To give them recognition and acknowledge their struggles and achievements.rnReceiving: Participants will gain knowledge of the world, children living lives under very different circumstances, they will learn compassion, respect and social conscience.
Milestones:
Hallo there, great need has turned into big fun!!rnrnIt is unbelievable for a student from SPACC to compete with students of the so called better schools in the community and turns to be the best. What a privilege it was!!rnrnStudents at SPACC asked fellow students from other schools to join together for quiz competition, two from each school. The other students were so sure they would win ours, while the pupils of SPACC were half sure! Shockingly when the results came out, two from SPACC were the best.rnrnWhy did it happen?rnrnPupils from SPACC were always challenged by the messages in the letters they got especially from Creek View Primary school pupils. They do comment that the children seem to be younger than them but the things they talk about are big.rnrnSay:rnrn * The clubs they havern * The preparations they do towards Christmasrn * The topics they talk about; because most of their topics are studied in secondary school in Uganda e.g. HistoryrnrnOur pupils developed confidence which caused every teacher at SPACC to wonder. The pupils say that since they have international connections, they too must turn international and they are now very serious with their academics in order to be different from the local schools and pupils here.rnrnDuring the struggle to become international, one student amazed the whole school. She failed to pass to go to Primary five last year,2008.She repeated Primary four in 2009 but said that “how can an international student fail a class? I will never be after the first best three”. Term one, she was the first and term two she was the second! No one believed she could perform that way. Internationalism!!!rnrnThank you our blog readers because through you SPACC has been put on the map (in the limelight!) in the community and outside. We have been able to put up more classrooms, also a friend from the U.S donated to us scholastic materials, which included learning aids such as charts, text books, writing pads, pencils to mention but a few.rnrnThank you for being so supportive in turning SPACC into a real school!!!rnrnHave you ever seen or heard of unprofessional teachers challenging those who are the so called “professionals”? It has started happening at SPACC because really our teachers have a heart for the underprivileged children in our school.rnrnThank you, Martin Sebuliba Victor Chairman, Springs Alive Childrens' Centre
Budget:
Talk is cheap, the goal is to give voice to the pressing needs of these children and attract partners who are willing to incorporate Springs Alive Children's Centre into their planned giving programs, grants of technology such as XO laptops, solar lighting, school supplies and much more.
Needs:
Anyone and everyone interested in helping to spread the word about small voices emanating from a school in rural Uganda.
Tags:
whovilleproject, uganda, spacc, springsalive, martinsebuliba, orphans, children, education, ripplingpond, sendkathy, spacc, communication
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