Day 4 Spent in Pangani-Working with teachers today

Everyday we ride the bus for about 30 minutes to an hour to get to our school.  The traffic is crazy; cars, carts, bicycles, vans, buses all squeeze together to try to get  to where they are going.  There are no lanes.  Tonight it took us one and a half hours to get back to our motel because of an accident.  Pedestrians weave in and out of traffic across the streets.  I can hardly look out the windows, I'm afraid that we will hit someone.

This is class 5 red; 5th graders and their teacher.  They stay in the classroom the entire day. With the exception of a little time in physical education.  Notice the plates on the desk?  Yes, they eat lunch in their room also.  A 5 gallon plastic tub full of rice with some vegtables mixed in (cabbage and carrots) is their lunch everyday.  They have no eating utensils.  What this picture does not show you is the mold on the patched concrete walls, floor, and ceiling, and the spot on the floor where they burn coal to keep warm on cold days.
I spent the day in six classrooms and then spent the afternoon sharing ideas with their teachers.  The people are very caring and eager to share about their challenges and joys in life.