Education

The Education committee takes care of the education projects for primary and secondary education.

One of the projects is ‘A Trip to Mutare’, intended for the primary education. During two weeks the children are brought into contact, trough a teaching package, an exhibition and workshop African music and dance, with the daily life in an African City. Recently the module ‘back to basic’ has been added, Sports and play African style.

Zimsurf and Zimquest are IT education programs for secondary education. Zimsurf is a free internet site intended for student of the lower classes and the second phase.
In Zimquest student of schools from Haarlem and Mutare work interactive together on a project.

Kutenda
Volunteers of the City Link has founded a fund to support children of poor background with their primary and secundary education called Kutenda.
More information: Kutenda

World Aids Day 2007

World Aids Day
Student from the Coornhert Lyceum Haarlem and several colleges at Mutare took part in a writing competition for World Aids Day 1st December 2007.
Below the winning contributions from Mutare and Haarlem.

It will come at your door knocking

As I pass the graveyard grieving, over
My weak uncle dying, my mother crying
Is the memory that comes to me crawling
Woken from the grave reverie, I hear “you are lying”
Two lads disagreeing whether AIDS is killing

Without invitation I interject, “what”. People are striving
Trying to eradicate this scourge that is traumatising
Though you might resort to mocking remember that,
The calling will one day come at your door knocking.

Rebecca Chopwanya
Herentals College Mutare

My Pledge
I will look up events related to World AIDS Day in my area and try to visit them. It really is a shame that a disease like AIDS is still out there killing while we have plenty of medicines. AIDS isn't a major problem here and shouldn't be one anywhere else in the world either.

My Report
On 1 December it will be World Aids Day. The goal of this day is to set a further step in the fight to stop AIDS. The pledge asks people from all over the world to take the lead to stop AIDS. These pledges will be collected online, by mail and at events, and they will be used to create exhibitions, banners and other usability acts during major events in 2008. All these efforts will result in more AIDS prevention in three areas: treatment, care and support.

Saskia Schoonebeek
Coornhert Lyceum Haarlem