Last week, we reported on how Debbie Valette’s ground-breaking reading program had done wonders for one school wrestler, Lewis, who was having lots of trouble getting to grips with reading.

Thanks to her use of ‘recorded books’ on CDs or via the iPod, Lewis has taken to reading along with the recorded books like a duck to water. Setting the reading speed at its lowest setting, he has been able to follow the words on the page as their are spoken. Since then, it’s been hard to pry him away from books.

And it doesn’t stop there, since Debbie has managed to get other departments in the school interested. Here’s what she says:

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Summer has passed and classrooms around the world are again filled with children [mostly] eager to learn.

The same is especially true for the Jinkfuin school in Cameroon which is one of the projects that Catalyst Exhibits has been helping to fund through GMMAfrica. Without that funding, the school would not exist and the children would remain largely uneducated.

Teh Francis, a director at  GMMAfrica, has sent us some photos of the school classroom back in action – the quality’s not great but it’s the thought  - and the kids – that counts.

“It has been now some weeks since the re-opening of the schools and things have been going fine with the children we sponsor at the elementary schools and in colleges. “

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