Many young and younger people of Laos are interested in learning English. Opening to the wide world, they started to feel the necessity of English. But, it’s not mandatory in public schools yet.
Actually, teachers are not good enough at English to teach. If they want to go to afterschool, school fee is quite burden.
To meet children and adults in this situation, we opened the school.
Now, about 200 students study English from many activities as well classroom work.
And, out of the school, we support 800 students in local primary schools. We offer English class in their school as we send English teachers who majored in English language. And every Saturday, we bring them(about 60 students from 2 schools) to our school, we give more active lesson with lunch.Nearby the school, there are several sewing factories. Many young people working there want to learn English, too. Yet, they don’t have enough money, time.
For them, we opened another class on Sunday. We’re happy to see their happy faces to pronounce ABC.(Most of them didn’t know alphabet, some of them even their own letter.)
We have many out-of-classroom works. Christmas is a good day to teach them English speakers’ culture. Every year, we have Christmas event. Students are very active to participate. They amaze their parents with fluent English speaking in the event.And, school-opening-anniversary is another big event. We had ‘Miss Lao Vision school contest’ in 2010.
In this way, we try to advance education in Laos. Now, we teach English only as a kind of afterschool. The license we got from the government is for a private school to teach every subject. We hope and prepare to do it in near future.
