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Sackville club member and President Leslie Van Patter spent 5 weeks working as a Rotary Volunteer in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. |
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Leslie visited 18 primary schools where the Rotary Club of Tzaneen had introduced a Number Skills Program for grades R-3, to address a major shortcoming in the rural education system. Using workbooks and concrete materials, the Program was designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities for children to develop fundamental numeracy skills. |
The schools ranged from well-run, adequately-funded private colleges to drastically under-funded schools with extremely crowded classrooms and shortages of basic equipment such as desks, chairs and writing materials. Leslie was able to assist teachers with implementing the Number Skills Program and evaluate their progress, as well as work with individual children and small groups, to ensure they were grasping the concepts. |
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Visit to an AIDS hospice.Rotary Volunteers donate their time to projects such as this, and can apply to the Rotary Foundation for assistance with travel expenses. |