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Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:34 |
| Five special teachers of the Wichernschule in Minden spent two weeks at
the Rainbow School this summer. The Wichernschule is a school for
intellectual impaired children in Minden/ Germany supported by the Diakonisches Werk Minden. As a partner school of Rainbow we are
accompaning the project from the very beginning. We were looking forward to see what has been built up so far and - of
course - to meet our friend Robert Shehaghilo the head teacher at
Rainbow. Last year he spent six weeks in Minden to have a close look on
our kind of work with handicapped children. |
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from the start we felt the warm welcome and we started working together
with the staff of Rainbow for these days. The children were really the
same as our pupils so that it was easy to get in contact by playing,
singing and dancing. After school we met in working groups with the
teachers and teaching
assistants, where we discussed different ideas about the work with
handicapped children. Our Tanzanian friends had many questions about
our way of teaching. We exchanged experiences about the same work in a
completely different culture and surrounding and in despite of the
various conditions of our education. For us it was a big gain to get a
new view on our own work. |
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| We took part on a parents' meeting. It was impressive to hear the
parents talking about the development of their children since they are
visiting Rainbow. One father said: My son has learned to know who he
is. Isn't that a strong sentence? Others told us that their children became more independent. One girl
began to wash her clothes unassisted, another boy now is helping to
clean the house, one child is able to dress herself, many of them have
learned to sing new songs ... We were also invited to visit some of the pupils' homes to see the life
conditions and to hear their individual life stories. The parents
showed us their thankfulness for having the advantage to send their
children to this special kind of school. |
| After these short two weeks we had to say Good bye to our friends, the
children and the Rainbow staff, being sure our partnership is just
beginning. |
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