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Thursday, 21 June 2012

And now for another 75!

It’s all happening at Child of Hope's slum-based school… although it couldn’t make room for the expected intake of children in February because the school’s next floor wasn’t ready, staff have come up with a solution to take in another 75 children – hot-desking!
   So some of the school's classrooms now do double shifts, and while the existing children still attending school until lunch, the new pupils arrive at 1.30pm for their lessons.
   Well… 1.30pm is the start time, but those kids are so keen to start, they are hanging off the school gates from around 12 noon. They love it.
   It means very little extra in the way of running costs, as staff are already paid for the whole day.
   That takes the total number of pupils to 280, with around half (148) now sponsored. The new floor should be finished by December or January, which will allow the UK-based charity to educate a further 50 children.