EQUIPPING CHILDREN WITH LIFE SKILLS
Seeing that one of the causes of the school dropout of children was the lack of basic needs like food, and school materials, ACHE sat with them and listened to children. Among the ideas shared some little income-generation activities were thought about. A solution that was taken to the school dropout was that a child get a domestic animal to rear for the class and when the animal reproduces, this child would get some of the litter and the other would be shared with the other children at school. Another idea that arose in that meeting with children was to use the school land to cultivate some vegetables, fruit, and trees with the idea of supporting the school feeding program so that their colleagues who had difficulties to pay the school feeding get the opportunity to keep on studying and that the school environment becomes a place where green revolution is cared for. Presently …… children have so far got a hen or a rabbit to rear and pass it to a colleague and so on.
CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
To help children enjoy the school as a conducive learning environment, ACHE has thought of supporting the school leaders and teachers to professionally develop. It is in this perspective that teachers benefited from two pieces of training to support them be able to implement the competence-based curriculum, the curriculum that was recently launched to equip children with knowledge, skills values, and attitudes. In the training evaluations, teachers expressed their strong need to go deeper into details and be able to fully understand every component of the competence-based curriculum.