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THE KANIAKA VILLAGE: THE SCHOOL |
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INFORMATION
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DESCRIPTION
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| Origins |
The parents of the
village of Kaniaka have felt the requirement of giving an instruction
to their own sons in native place in order to avoid to make
them cover every day the 22 km that separate the village from
the nearer school.
For this reason they have taken contacts with Mr Ilunga Kayembe
of the Avventist Church, director of the primary school of Mikombo.
It was in this way that in 1996 the school of Kaniaka was created
thanks to the participation of the parents who contributed by
donating the bricks and by constructing with their own hands
the two buildings, both composed of two rooms, of which the
school is made up.
That time the parents received also the promise, from the ONG
Rich Italy, to see the school reconstructed with resistant materials.
That promise has never been maintained. |
| Organization of
the studies |
The school works under
the supervision of a committee of parents made up of four men
of the village.
The courses are subdivided in three classes, 1°, 2°
and 3°, held by teacher of avventist church. |
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Teaching staff |
Mr Lubangu Kipenge,
Mr Kabamba Mwepu, Mr Nsenga Ntambwe, teaching hold the lessons
in French and swahili languages from the 7,30 to the 13,00 from
monday to friday. That because it's an avventist school of the
Seventh day that respects the festivity of saturday and sunday. |
| Pupils |
The village counts
181 children but the rate frequentation of the course is rather
low. En fact only 35% of potential students participate to the
course. Moreover this frequency is in constant lessening because
of the cost of the scholastic fee that many families are no
more in position to facing.
The school is not attended only from children of the village
but also from children coming from the near villages: Kasamba,
Kiapaleka, Bombeki, Baya, Kintu, Makina |
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Cost |
The cost of the registration
to the school is fixed in 1 Dollar to the month for every pupil,
to multiply for ten months of lesson |
| Conditions pupils
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The cost of the registration
to the school is fixed in 1 Dollar to the month for every pupil,
to multiply for ten months of lessons
Pupils conditions The pupils who attend this school, opposite
to the other children of the city, do not have uniforms, are
badly dressed (without shoes and with dirty cloths) and, in
a generalized manner, they suffer for malnutrition.
The school is in advanced abandonment: pieces of bricks are
used as arranged seats, the roof is made of straw and it must
be changed year for year, the pavement is in struck earth, humid
and dirty, the blackboard is broken off, didactic material does
not exist, the windows are not closed from glasses, it lacks
one toilette.
The greater part of the pupils is introduced without the more
necessary instruments for the studies |
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Parascolastic activities |
As for parascolastic
activities, the boys play football (balls are made of used bags
wound up togheter), to marble of clay and they run. The small
field of the school is dedicated part to the children and part
to the teaching body |
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social conditions
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