Polite or POE-lite, learning to be English
As thirty-two volunteers and refugee students sit down to practice English language skills after everyone has had a sandwich and poured...
Inside a critical thinking workshop
Gender issues from Field mission for Developments in Literacy – Khairpur, rural Sindh DIL School location: Rind–Nowa (local ngo partner)...
Diary of a Refugee Support Worker
"You burn body of man in Guy Fawkes fire." "You lie." These aren't accusations, although you could perceive them as such. But they aren't...
War games scare refugees
We are at the Kindness Initiative in Kings Cross and I am seated between four individuals two young Congolese girls, an elderly Syrian...
Alone when he is surrounded
"I only speaking Tamil, only I speak English here. But I want to try," he reassures me. We are using a worksheet that looks like a game...
Fear of Witchcraft
An attack by evil spirits is not something we had been prepared to discuss on a sunny fall afternoon, but there it was. We had been...
Challenging our students
Our Tuesday session was on local and domestic issues; reading from worksheets. We broke away into smaller groups, 2 volunteers to 5 or 6...
