Most of our volunteers work with 1st and 2nd grade children which in theory should be between ages 6 and 8 but can go anywhere up to 14. I have had an interesting experience this past week giving private classes to the 8 year old son of two prominent Granadino doctors. Silvio goes to a private American College in the capital and whist in my morning classes I have been struggling with 12 year olds who still cannot read a basic sentance I have then been working in the afternoons on science projects on The Solar System and details of the American Constitution with an 8 year old, in perfectly fluent English!
The division here between those few who have and those many who do not is cavernous and only goes to reinforce the work done by groups such as those that are here, trying to improve, if just slightly, the lives of those around us.
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