Our time in Rwanda has been wonderful. Today Bill Lemke and myself
finished the whiteboards that we started yesterday. We went to town on Tuesday to
buy supplies with Robert. We then glued the plywood and the white linoleum
together to create the whiteboards. This morning Bill and I finished the boards
by cutting them down to size. We then wrapped all the edges in Duct Tape (something
Rwanda has never experienced before), hopefully to prevent the linoleum from
cracking. We built four boards and hung three of them. When we hung one in the
pre-school classroom Anna told us what it would be used for: teaching the
teachers. She was going to begin a program to educate the teachers, up to an
associates level. We then heard about one man who was teaching here and hoped
to return to his native country of Burundi to begin a school there, with the
education that he would get from Anna (a long term missionary who oversees the
pre-school on base. It seems like such a simple thing: glue and hang four
simple whiteboards… But God will use those (and the education passed along
through them) to influence and touch a huge number of children.
For BillyJoel Designs, I’m Joel Rurik.
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