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May 27, 2010 News
The Bless the Children orphanage at Industry Front, East Coast has secured on-line educational assistance from a California-based foundation.
The National Network of Digital Schools, (NNDS) is a management foundation providing online curriculum and management services to schools around the world. It has provided access to its premier Little Lincoln curriculum for the orphanage in Guyana.
NNDS Director of Elementary Curriculum, Kellie Hamilton, explained that when the organisation learned of the desire to and efforts made to help the children learn effectively, “We wanted to find a way to help. After discussing their goals and objectives, we decided to donate the kindergarten and first grade Little Lincoln curriculum for the children to use.”
Little Lincoln is a standards-based elementary curriculum that combines online and offline components to teach children daily lessons in reading, writing, math, social studies, and science.
It includes printed activities books, sight word books, original fiction books, flashcards, resources for the adults helping the children learn, and all necessary supplies, such as handwriting paper, crayons, math manipulatives, and tools needed to complete science experiments.
Online, students have access to a wide variety of resources, including mini-games for practice and reinforcement and 720 teacher videos for each grade level that model the more difficult objectives being taught.
Bless the Children orphanage currently provides for 17 children between the ages of three and 12, most of whom cannot read despite being enrolled in school.
“A lot of the classes in Guyana don’t have textbooks so the teachers will write everything out on the blackboard. The children write down everything verbatim but they have no concept of what they’re seeing,” said Pastor Fiona Pyszka, spokesperson for Bless the Children.
Pastor Pyszka became interested in buying the curriculum for the orphanage after seeing the progress her son, a first grader enrolled in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, made using the Little Lincoln curriculum.
“After seeing his progress I thought this program would be awesome for the orphanage. This is what they need,” she said.
The Little Lincoln curriculum is a perfect fit for the work Pastor Pyszka and her family is doing. Pyszka is grateful for the generous donation, and believes its benefits will be realized for years to come.
“This is a foundation for what they can achieve. Our children have high goals for themselves. And with this donation from Little Lincoln, we can get them started on a better learning path right away.”
Hamilton expressed the hope that “The hands-on materials and engaging teacher videos that are a part of the Little Lincoln curriculum will help the children at Bless the Children Orphanage to not only learn to read and write, but to gain the skills needed to continue a lifelong educational journey.”
With the capacity to accommodate 64 children and staffed primarily by volunteers, Bless the Children has a monthly operating budget of approximately $6,000. In addition to providing food, shelter, clothing and education to the children, they plan to offer classes for parents and leadership classes for the community.
Their hope is eventually to start a school for the children of Bless the Children and the local community.
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