A Program Which Can Have A Positive Impact In Your Classroom And In A Classroom, An Ocean Away

Case 1-Imagine students of a classroom of a developed nation, corresponding with their counterparts in a less developed nation like Uganda.Knowing about each other’s lives.The different trials and tribulations produced by the different regions of their births.Sharing the same joy every child gets through learning and playing.Sharing their cultures.Sharing their lives through hand written letters.

Case 2- Imagine the same classroom of a developed nation, raising funds for the poor schools in Uganda so that the latter can have better trained teachers and a better school, accelerating their learning.

Putting the above cases in action can help both parties in the following ways:

1.It will expand the worldview of students of both the nations.Both the parties will learn to appreciate and learn from each other’s communities and lives.Being aware of the culture and people of a vastly different nation, will not only make their curriculum more enriching but sensitize them towards the children just like them, just in another part of the world.

2.Which brings me to my second point, such an arrangement will naturally foster values of kindness and understanding.Kindness has been shown by researchers to have a positive impact on emotions, behaviour and even academic performance.Children as young as 20 months old exhibit altruistic tendencies.So providing an opportunity for children to strengthen their innate instinct of compassion, is a great opportunity in itself.Here is a great example of how practicing kindness changed a school -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lj5pWWA_MY

3.The financial help from schools of developed nations will help students of rural Uganda to have a sound education and therefore, a better future.

Macerudet’s International School Link Partnership Programme (INTERSLIPP) offers schools just this-an opportunity to connect with a culture, foreign but friendly and expand their width of kindness across the globe and see how it positively affects the students of both parts of the world.

I invite you to take a step forward in the direction of building a kinder world and a mutually understanding and respecting class of global citizens.

Note-For more information, on details of INTERSLIPP and how the financial help from partner schools of developed nations will be put to use, drop a mail to us at macerudet.uganda@gmail.com