Volunteers in Bright Future Community Center

Saru, one of the Homestay ladies, invited Bronwyn and Liz and me to her home for a meal. We had all spent a week teaching the Homestay group and it was wonderful to see how much Saru had learnt and how proud she was of her ability to use the language.

Volunteering at Bright Future Community Center

An extension of the work at Bright Future Community Center is teaching in the local community. So far the only classes we have managed to arrange have been through the local hotel. The volunteers can have plenty of fun teaching the hotel staff and the girls who work in the shop. There is also a scheme in Kopan for home stays. The ladies who run the Homestays are very keen to learn English. They want to be able to talk to their guests.

Bright Future Health Center

The Bright Future Health Center is being used to deliver vaccinations and simple medicines such as worm tablets to the local children.

Children cleaning teeth

The children were delighted with the lesson. although some found the tongue cleaning a bit strange.

This morning the nurse in the Bright Future Health Center wanted to teach about cleaning teeth. She used donated tooth brushes to demonstrate how to clean teeth. The children were very interested and the nurse wants to continue with other health lessons.

New blankets

Another donation by one of the Latrobe students was some blankets for some of the families of the children who attend BFCC. He discovered that one young boy was sleeping on the concrete floor without a proper blanket. During winter the temperature falls below zero at night, so a warm blanket would have been most welcome.