Devon and I just updated the Goma Student Fund site. Mostly, we just adjusted a lot of the text on the site to reflect the fact that the school has begun its second year. From our most recent blog post:

We’re happy to report that our lovely school in Mugunga has begun its second year. Board member Eric Nguyen (that’s me) was in Goma for the month of September to meet with the local board members, teachers, and of course the students.

With some work over the summer, we were able to expand enrollment from 140 to over 250 students. The little ones range from five to twelve years of age. They’re now all hard at work learning French, Swahili, history, mathematics, and human biology. It’s amazing, in fact, how hard they work. Even crammed four to a bench and sharing pencils and paper, I never saw students act up or talk back to a teacher. Instead, there was boundless enthusiasm, laughter, little hands stretching as high as possible to answer a question.

Occasionally, kids who we couldn’t take would stand outside the windows, watching the lesson from outside. We’ll keep growing, slowly, for them.

Here’s a short video that we posted on the front page, containing short clips from my visits to our new school in Mugunga, just outside Goma:

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• Video from the Mugunga Camps (January, 2008)
• Fighting Beyond the Country Club Walls (August, 2007)
• Congo line! (August, 2007)
• Mugunga (September, 2007)
• Samsung NV-10 (September, 2007)

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