RESPECT Guinea Continues To Grow Amidst Challenges
Greetings and Happy New Year!
The year 2007 saw, for the first time, RESPECT Guinea growing very large in number and was full of activities.
RESPECT Guinea and, in particular, Mohomou Community Refugee School undertook two giant projects: a garden and the introduction of RESPECT Vocational school. This school became necessary due to the influx of refugees from the various camps that were closed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The school currently enrolls 600 high school graduates doing Professional English, Business Management and Accounting, and Computer Literacy. It will interest you to know that I was chosen by the community to became the Director of the school.
The garden project was done by students from junior high level. The Letter Exchange Program was a successful one. Many students received personal correspondence from their friends ranging from gifts and cards. We are very grateful, indeed, to all friends abroad.
For the first time, RESPECT Guinea won the Community Participating Program award in Nzerekore region. Students participated in all UNHCR organised programs.
Unfortunately for RESPECT, one of the active member died in car accident.
This year, Mohomou Community Refugee School plans to introduce another project looking for more computers to meet the growing number of students who are interested in learning computer to further their career.
There is still the problem with internet students who want to write their pen friends. The problem of the internet has become an obstacle to them. We will be grateful if this internet problem will be solved for us.