"We've come to register our children at your school."

Our school is joyfully moving along. In case you haven’t been following our news, we grew from 61 to 125 when the school year started in January. We opened our school to the community with a monthly fee to cover some of the costs, as well as the lunch that is served 4 days a week. By the second week of school we had every class full, and that was with adding a 5^th class.

Now I face the challenge, almost daily, of parents coming wanting to enroll their children. I’ve been told on several occasions that the children are crying because they can’t come. A group of 8 children whose parents work at a health clinic further in the bush showed up on Friday to be “assessed” so that they could come. Right now they are not going to school at all. Several parents last week brought money and wanted to pay even though we did not yet have a space.

We are considering some alternatives for some of these children or ways to raise funds to add on to our building.