Teaching in Lebanon

Many of you who followed last year’s adventure will know that Val and I volunteered to live and work in a secondary school in Johannesburg, writing a daily blog. We

Orientation day 2 – firstly, led by ‘Right to play’, an important and influential NGO in the region. As the name suggests, they stress the use of play in education

Today’s session was led by the enormously impressive Alexandra Chen, a clinical psychologist with vast experience of working with displaced people, who has been involved with Jusoor from the very

Jusoor has two schools in the Bekaa valley. Jeb Jannine (JJ) has been our main base until now, and is the one which most resembles a standard school, with classrooms,

Today we met the children for the first time. I’ve taught plenty of worse classes in my time, but it certainly wasn’t easy. At one stage, I found myself dripping

My apologies for yesterday’s post, which was unnecessarily downbeat; I was tired, a bit off-colour (I’ll spare you the details) and – despite all the warnings we’d been given –

Well, I’m astonished. I am a music teacher. In 3 days, our theatre project groups are making amazing sounds out of almost nothing. Each lesson the children become an orchestra;

You may have noticed that our blog has included only limited pictures of the children we are teaching. There are good reasons for this – first, it was pointed out

Before we left England, Chris’s golfing buddy Paul made a generous financial donation to our Drama project, to be used in any way that might help to make it a

During induction week, we were told that the summer school is not just for the benefit of the kids, but also for the teachers. Almost all of the staff are

With the Jusoor summer project 2018 having come to an end, Val and I can look back with pleasure and satisfaction on a remarkable summer. We were given the wonderful