in most schools, the kids are sitting on dirt floors. in the better schools, they sit on cracked cement floors. seven hours a day. and the teachers stand on those floors for seven hours a day. chairs are a dream to malawi teachers, not an item on any reasonable wish list. most malawi teachers have never seen a desk or chair in a classroom. a teacher asking for chairs in malawi is asking for too much. it was that day that changed the way we will look at desks forever. so today, i am proud to announce that sicomac school has raised over $2,400 to buy desks for our malawi friends. parents and teachers at matt s school added more money to what the kids raised for the k.i.n.d. fund, kids if need of desks, a partner of unicef and
would you like to be doing that five days a week in every one of your classes as the kids in malawi, they re sitting in that same room five days a week, seven hours a day, many of them on dirt floors, some of them on cracked cement floors. and i can tell you having watched them, it becomes physically grueling. what is it like to do it for 45 minutes? i absolutely hated it. i couldn t stand it at all. i was complaining the whole time. i stood up and i wanted to leave the room, to be honest with you. and after i watched the video clip that he showed me, i just really seemed sad about it and wanted to do everything i could to help the people in africa and show them how just to show them how it feels to sit in a desk and how it s very much appreciated here in the u.s. and it s just a big deal. i was very shocked when i walked into the room and saw that there was no seats, so i was very upset about it also.
your classes as the kids in malawi, they re sitting in that same room five days a week, seven hours a day, many of them on dirt floors, some of them on cracked cement floors. and i can tell you having watched them, it becomes physically grueling. what is it like to do it for 45 minutes? i absolutely hated it. i couldn t stand it at all. i was complaining the whole time. i stood up and i wanted to leave the room, to be honest with you. and after i watched the video clip that he showed me, i just really seemed sad about it and wanted to do everything i could to help the people in africa and show them how just to show them how it feels to sit in a desk and how it s very much appreciated here in the u.s. and it s just a big deal. i was very shocked when i walked into the room and saw that there was no seats, so i was very upset about it also. and i really just wanted to
i went there because a few weeks earlier a friend who created a charter school in my old neighborhood in boston told me about her trip to malawi. she visited schools there and asked teachers what they needed most. i guessed paper, pencils. no. the deprivation level in malawi defies our untrained imaginations. you have to think even more elemental than paper and pencils. where would the kids put the paper and pencils if they don t have desks? no desks. not one. no desks for students or teachers in any of the schools my friend visited. this is what going to school in malawi looks like. in most schools, the kids are sitting on dirt floors. in the better schools they sit on cracked cement floors. seven hours a day. and the teachers stand on those
i went there because a few weeks earlier a friend who created a charter school in my old neighborhood in boston told me about her trip to malawi. she visited schools there and asked teachers what they needed most. i guessed paper, pencils. no. the deprivation level in malawi defies our untrained imaginations. you have to think even more elemental than paper and pencils. where would the kids put the paper and pencils if they don t have desks? no desks. not one. no desks for students or teachers in any of the schools my friend visited. this is what going to school in malawi looks like. in most schools, the kids are sitting on dirt floors. in the better schools they sit on cracked cement floors. seven hours a day.