Today, the life skills lesson focused on “how to be a good friend.” The lesson began by reviewing what was covered last week, as last week’s activities laid the groundwork for today’s class. A discuss…
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English Class on “Listening Comprehension” @ Remand Home
The lesson started with a game of Simon Says to engage the children. The topic of the lesson was listening comprehension, where the assignment was to answer questions after listening to a book being r…
Sport for Wellness Easter Edition @ Remand Home
The engagement was a platform for showing how children within statutory institutions can be responsible in terms of behavior and how they can deal with social issues they are facing in the community. …
English Class on “How to Write a Letter” @ Remand Home
The lesson started with a warm-up game where the students had to arrange themselves in order of height from tallest to shortest without talking. Then the lesson proceeded with a lecture on how to writ…
English Lesson “Future Tense” with Younger Kids @ Remand Home
I started the lesson by introducing two kinds of future tenses. I explained how the will-future and going to-future work and we made example sentences for each….
Life Skills Lesson on Peer Pressure @ Remand Home
We started the lesson by introducing the topic of peer pressure to them. We discussed different types of peers and both positive and negative peer pressure. At the end, we engaged in a discussion abou…
English Class “Simple Past” for Younger Class @ Remand Home
Today, we started the lesson with the game ‘Simon Says.’ Following that, we conducted a brief review of the last two lessons. Subsequently, we delved into the topic of the Simple Past tense and discus…
Jihimarishe Festival @ Remand Home
The day was filled with a series of events, starting with a career class aimed at exposing the minors to careers they may not have imagined. They had the opportunity to learn about careers that align …
“Simple Past” English Lesson with Younger Kids @ Remand Home
First, we reviewed the last two lessons focusing on subject-verb agreement with “He/She/It” and the use of “Has/Have.” Following that, we discussed the simple past tense….
Life Skills Lesson on Feelings @ Remand Home
At the beginning, we played a game by rolling the dice and answering one of six questions we had written on the board. Following this, we engaged in a discussion about feelings and how to handle them …
English Class on Future Tense @ Remand Home
The class was taught how to use the future tense in English. Initially, a thorough explanation was provided on the board, collectively discussing the usage of “will,” “will not,” and “going to” in com…
English Lesson “Have/ Has” with Younger Kids @ Remand Home
We began the session with a short game involving a ball to energize everyone, during which we asked some questions. Following this, we proceeded with explanations about when to use “have” or “has.” To…
English Lesson “He/She/It the „s“ must fit” @ Remand Home
In our English lesson at the Remand Home we talked about He/She/It the „s“ must fit….
Vision and Goal Setting @ Remand Home
The activity was held to help the kids know their goals, desires, and their visions for the future. We introduced the lesson to the kids by defining what goals and vision meant. We gave examples in ea…
“Rugby Roar” English Lesson @ The Remand Home
This week, we began Chapter Two of “Rugby Roar” with the older class at the Remand Home. We kicked off with a game, followed by a review of both old and new vocabulary. Then, we read through the first…
English Lesson “Fruits” with the Younger Kids @ The Remand Home
We began the lesson with a round of introductions and a game. Following that, we collected names of English fruits with the kids and constructed sentences using them. Afterwards, they were given a tas…
Effective Communication Skills Lesson @ The Remand Home
Today, we had a YUMP session at the Remand home. Spencer and Zoey facilitated a lesson on effective communication, specifically in heightened emotional states. They facilitated this lesson with the ol…
Rugby Roar English Class @ Remand Home
We used the unknown words from last weeks reading of Rugby Roar, to facilitate more English teaching. We played fishbowl, talked about the words, and completed written sentences. …
Emotional Painting @ Remand Home
The children were asked to describe the feelings they had at that moment and paint them with watercolor….
Lesson on Language Comprehension @ Remand Home
We met with the older kids in the Remand Home and led an English lesson working on listening comprehension skills using charades, a short story, and then sentences. …
Life skills “Taking Responsibility” @ Remand Home
During this talk,we delved into the vital concept of responsibility and its significance in shaping teenagers as valuable members of society. We explored the essence of being accountable individuals, …
English with Older Students @ Remand Home
We taught 15 words from a chapter book we are going to be reading using charades, discussions, and worksheets. …
“Topical Review” English Class @ Remand Home
We had a class with the little kids, reviewing two topics that we had taught earlier. This was done to check whether the kids could recall what they had been taught. It was really necessary for the ki…
Kisumu Children Remand Home Partners Strategy & Review Meeting
The Partners Strategy Meeting served as a collaborative platform for all partners working with the Kisumu Children Remand Home. The primary objective was to submit progress reports, share updates on o…
English Class @ Remand Home
We worked with worksheets to facilitate the development of speaking in the English language, and then worked on translating words from Kiswahili to english while looking at grammatical tenses….
Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home
We continue the successful work that has started the past weeks. This report covers two activities of the same kind as part of a string (Tue, 30.01. / Fri, 02.02.). Like the past weeks, it is still a …
Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home
We continue the successful work that has started the past weeks. This report covers two activities of the same kind as part of a string (Tue, 23.02. / Fri, 26.02., each from 10 am to 12 pm).
It turne…
Self-Confidence Lesson @ Remand Home
Self-confidence is such a grounding aspect of the self. It is the root that anchors our self worth, self esteem and our ability to express ourselves fearlessly and authentically. In our session, we hi…
Open Session @ Remand Home
This open session was intended to encourage children to draw. They got inspirations by volunteers who provided examples of drawings that can express emotions or thoughts dominating the children’s curr…
Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home
The purpose of this activity was to introduce a different way of teaching by using Swahili language in addition to pictures. Students did have to name the English term based on either the image or Swa…
Life skills on Emotions @ Remand Home
It was a great chance to talk about emotions with kids. We prepared a sheet for everyone. The sheet shows different pictures of emotions and talk about those. Kids and volunteers talked about their ow…
Year End Recap @ Remand Home
The purpose of the year-end open review was to evaluate the program’s impact on the boys and girls at the Remand Home, assess their feedback, and identify areas for improvement and growth for the upco…
English Class @ Remand Home
Different English class topics with follow up exams….
English Class “Use of Apostrophe” @ Remand Home
The purpose of the activity was to introduce and teach the concept of shortening words or statements using apostrophes, engaging students in practical, hands-on exercises that reinforce learning throu…
The Life Tree Concept @ Remand Home
The concept of the life tree aims to shed light on uncomfortable emotions. Similar to the roots of a tree, these emotions provide depth, and we can use the experiences gained from them to improve how …
Chapati Festival at the Kisumu Children Remand Home
We had an eventful day, having an opportunity with the children at the remand home. It was a timely and long awaited moment to share knowledge, fun, food and other activities.
The day began very earl…
English Class “Dictation” @ Remand Home
The purpose of the exercise was to assess and improve the spelling skills of kids through a dictation exercise, creating a supportive and engaging learning environment for students to enhance their sp…
Open Life Skills Session at the Remand Home
We had an open discussion about the common challenges young people are facing in the community, especially the boys. This was a personal question and everyone had an opportunity to express himself.
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English Class “Translation from Swahili” @ Remand Home
The class activity for this day was meant to test the kid’s knowledge and understanding on tenses and translation.
Some kids tend to know some words in Swahili language but not able to translate the s…
Life Skills + Kitchen Garden @ Remand Home
The session’s topic was the non-verbal communication….
English Class “Irregular Forms” @ Remand Home
Tuesday’s English class focused on regular and irregular forms of the simple past tense….
Football Session at the Remand Home
We had a football session in which we practiced the passing skills And the reaction time.
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English Class – Practicing Irregular Verbs @ Kisumu Children Remand Home
Our aim for this class was to focus on two different aspects.
1. Teach the children the present and past form of irregular verbs and how to build sentences with them.
2. Expand Vocabulary of the child…
Diversity and Empathy – Life Skill Session @ Kisumu Children Remand Home
Our purpose was to sensitize the children to the topic of diversity, aiming to enhance their ability to tolerate and understand people who are, or may seem, different from themselves. When discussing …
English Class “Reading Skills” @ Remand Home
Our aim was helping the children to improve their reading skills as well as improving their knowledge on the different tenses….
Nyalenda Young Stars vs. Remand Home – Friendly Football Match
We organized a friendly game between two of our beneficiaries, the teams of the Remand Home and Nyalenda Youngstars.
Talentshow @ Kisumu Children Remand Home
Our purpose to facilitate the talent show at the Remand Home was to give the children a chance to perform and express their talents. Our aim was to plan a day that lightens up their moods and empowers…
Life Skill Session “Diversity” @ Remand Home
The purpose of the session was to discuss identity and diversity with the younger boys, making them aware of the different nuances of the topic….
English Class “Reading and Text Comprehension” @ Remand Home
In today’s English class, our aim was to support the reading and text comprehension abilities of the children. Therefore, we focused on teaching new vocabulary and pronunciation that the children enco…
JIHIMARISHE Festival (Funday!) @ Kisumu Children Remand Home
The purpose of the activity was to offers the children in the Remand Home, whos everyday life partly gets hit from resignation and depression regarding their lack of freedom, a day of FUN, DANCE, GAME…
English Lesson @ Kisumu Children Remand Home
In last Fridays English class our purpose was to educate the children on how to write a letter in English. …
Life skill Session “Healthy Relationships” Pt. 2 @ Remand Home
The topic of the session was “Healthy Relationships”. We talked about the values of any kind of relationship….
Case Conference @ Kisumu Remand Home
The Case Conference is an important element of the Social Work that Better Me does in the Remand Home. It is an indispensable part regarding the different cooperations that the Remand Home has with se…
Life Skill Session “Healthy Relationships” @ Kisumu Remand Home
The purpose of the session what to have a conversation with the children about healthy relationships and find out what they know and don´t know about the topic. Furthermore, we focused on personal iss…
English Lesson “Homophones” @ Remand Home
Students learnt about homophones. After explicitly discussing what it is and brainstorming, we conducted three different activities. 1 – worksheet, 2 – exploring a picture book with homophones, 3 – wo…
English Lesson “Antonyms” @ Remand Home
The students learnt about Antonyms which are opposite words. We participated in multiple activities to consolidate the different words they were learning. The activities included worksheets, writing i…
Life Skill Session on Gender Equality @ Kisumu Remand Home
Our purpose was to educate the older boys at Remand Home on the importance of gender equality and sentizice them on the topic of stereotypes towards women and men. We also pointed out that in relation…
English Class “Rhymes” at the Remand Home
The topic of this English class was to teach the youths how to rhyme in the English language….
Remand Home Life Skills Session “Personal Boundaries”
The purpose of this life skills session at the Remand Home was to educate the boys and girls on consent. For the younger boys we focused largely on consent in day to day life and personal boundaries, …
Remand Home English Lesson
The purpose of this english lesson at Remand Home was to help students to recap and revise their knowledge of last weeks grammar, spelling and topic of the human body, as well as teach students how to…
Remand Home Life Skills Session on Puberty and Adolescence
The purpose of the English lessons at Remand Home are to educate the boys and girls on puberty and adolescence …
Case Conference
The purpose of this case conference was to gather all the partnering organisations that work with the Remand Home to discuss past, current and future cases that are being handled. …
English Class in the Remand Home
Educating the kids in the different body parts and contrubuting to their english vocabulary knowledge. …
Remand Home Life Skill Session “Feelings”
The students become more literate in expressing their feelings, they have an idea on how to deal with overwhelming feelings and what to do about it.
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Emotions in Football
Teaching the children ways to deal with negative emotions and how to keep a positive mindset through examples in football…
Remand Home Life Skills Session
The topic was mental health and sports…
Case Conference
The purpose of this case conference at the Remand Home was to assess and evaluate past cases and address new cases that …
Lifeskill lesson with the topic “Friendship and Trust”
Lifeskill lesson with the topic “friendship and trust”
– Talked about friendship and trust with the help of various questions and tasks
– e.g. What is important for you in a friendship?, searching fo…
English Class with the topic “my dream house”
English Class with the topic “my dream house” at the Remand Home
Remand Home Life skills Session on Critical Thinking
During this session we discussed the topic of critical thinking. This
included the 5 steps of critical thinking; decision making, problem
solving, reasoning, evaluation and analyzing. Ruth Obilo and Y…