A bit about the project

Just a quick note about the project I will be working on. 

The boarding school, called Bana Ba Metsi, where I am helping out caters for about 55 boys who have dropped out of the main stream Botswanan education system because of socio-economic reasons. The goal of the school is not only to provide them with a formal qualification, but also to teach the boys valuable life skills that will help them get a job in the future. These skills are things like brick laying, carpentry or car mechanics. 

My role at the school will be to help them pass their primary leaving certificate by teaching them basic maths and science, but also to help out in the doing manual work in the afternoons. Running extra curricular activities will also be a large part of my job.  

A simple man requires a simple blog

The purpose of this blog is to give a bit of an insight of my life next year to my friends and family. With that in mind please don't expect this blog to contain massive descriptive accounts of wildlife, or in fact any well written paragraphs of English. This blog is purely to give a snapshot view of what happens in the day to day life of a volunteer working in a school in rural Africa. I will update it as often as I can. I can't wait to leave England so I have some exciting stuff to write about.

Jack