I was very surprised a fortnight ago when a huge box arrived at my PO Box in Kibungo. It turned out to be a large number of kites which children at the Greycoats Hospital School in Westminster, London had made for the children in my schools. Along with the handmade kites, the children had written beautiful letters to the kids here, sharing snippets about life in England and what they had learnt about Rwanda at school:
I had a great time distributing the kites last week, at two of my schools and the children were fascinated by them. With support, they wrote a few lines of thanks to the students in London, which I have posted back to them. It was great to provide them with a real purpose for writing and some of the children were quite inventive with their letter writing:
Of course the highlight of this project was seeing the kids tearing around in the playground trying to make the kites fly. Due to the lack of wind, it seemed the children who ran flat out had the most success with getting their kites to fly but lots of fun was had by all and I am sure the children will perfect their kite flying soon enough.
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