Gunotsoga Primary School’s Learning Challenges

This is the school where Teddy teaches wildlife conservation. He interviewed one of the amazingly resourceful and enthusiastic teachers there. The kids are all engaged as their teacher describes his use of the school’s single monitor to display some questions with the rest being on the blackboard that the kids must copy. They don’t have a budget for a printer or paper and the computer he’s using is 15 years old and his own, from his university days, which he brought in from home. He explains how slow the process is and how it limits learning. Notice that there’s no table to elevate the monitor to improve visibility for the kids in the back rows.

• A few years ago a donor provided an air conditioning unit for one classroom to become a “computer lab” and four used computers were donated to the school.
  • however, there was no ongoing support for electricity cost or maintenance of the air conditioner and the computers are fallow without internet access or support for maintenance and software upgrades.