5-20 Presentation Day

Presentation Day! Convoy had been working with the school through a feeding program, which to many was the only meal of the day. The aim of the program is to get the school to eventually be able to sustain themselves and grow their own food. This is where we come in. Throughout the semester we studied the proper ways to improve a gardens growth in a healthy matter as well as studied how to maintain a chicken farm and keep our chickens healthy so they can grow big and fat to be butchered or to grow nice and strong to be able to produce the maximum amount of healthy eggs. The kids were incredible, they took everything we said and remembered it and reiterated it to us right back. They took great notes and understood what we were teaching them. I was angry with our class at the end of the day for the fact that they thought the kids would not understand or be able to comprehend what our lesson was teaching. The kids are just underprivileged and lack in opportunity. They go to school because they want to learn not because they have to. Sterns states in his novel “God made me to love serve and obey Him” (94) and in my opinion part of obeying is leaning from others, even if they are the ones that we are supposed to be helping! I had a hard time understanding why our class thought they would not be able to get on board with us. The kids are so smart and really take pride in their schoolwork! We could learn something from them!