Summertime, part two: Tutoring Re-Started
Improvised school board placed on makeshift wood-burning stove This month we have more exciting news to share with you: we were able to restart the tutoring program. Thanks to the sacrificial undertaking of a few of our new members (all non-Roma) we were able to begin providing tutoring classes for church children again! As some of you may remember, we held these classes for a semester and a half in 2021/22 and then had to stop because some of the volunteers/teachers were unable to continue due to the changes in their schedules. Ever since, it has been a prayer of ours to continue with it, as we truly enjoyed each moment from the last classes! Tutoring is something we’ve been planning to do for years. The idea was born after realizing how much the Roma-RAE pupils fall behind their non-Roma classmates in regards to knowledge they acquire and success they make in school. I'd shared this in the past already, but I’ll repeat it once again: over the course of the last 20 years govern