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…
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Art Class with the Kids @ Korando Educational Centre
We had an online meeting with the art teacher. Teacher Natalie interacted with the kids and taught them how to do their drawings step by step….
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….
Art Class with Grade 4 @ Korando Educational Centre
Today we had an art class with Grade 4 at the Korando Educational Centre. The kids had to draw King Tut’s mask together with us….
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…
“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….
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…
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…
“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…
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. …
Academic Success and O.K.Rs @ Kuoyo Secondary
There were two focuses of this session. There was a YUMP talk given about Academic success and O.K.R.s in HighSchool. There was also a survey conducted with 20 girls about menstrual hygiene. …
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. …
Decision Making in 6 Steps @ Korando
We taught our decision making in 6 steps as a YUMP session at Korando. We discussed how to differentiate between a good and bad decision and how to approach big decisions in life. …
Life Skills on “Decision Making” @ St. Williams
We had a very fruitful YUMP lesson about how to make good decisions….
Art Class “Cambodian Dragon Masks” with Ubuntu @ Korando
Today in art class we drew and colored Cambodian dragon masks. The kids each drew the intricate masks and then colored them in with bright colors. …
Life Skills “Decision Making” @ Kudho Secondary
With the help of a team from Jijenge, we taught a YUMP lesson on decision making in 6 steps. …
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…
Cultural Competency @ Jijenge Youth
-The purpose of this talk was to educate the youths on the role of cultural competence as the ability of an individual to understand and respect values, attitudes, beliefs, and mores that differ acros…
Academic Talk on Goals Using OKR Framework @ Kisian Secondary
The purpose of discussing the OKR ( Objectives. Key results ) framework with high school students was to give them practical tools for achieving academic success. By teaching them how to set clear goa…
Introductory Session: Kudho Secondary School
Since it was the first session with the group, the idea was to introduce the Youth Unleashed Mentorship Program to the group of Form 1 and Form 2 Boys.
We also wanted to find out what topics the stude…
Computer Classes for 7th Grade @ Korando Educational Center
This is the follow up of computer classes for the 8th grade at the Korando Educational Center, taking place on 3 days this week. Each session included a quick recap of the previous session at the begi…
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 …
German Alphabet and Numbers @ Kudho Secondary School
This week a number of follow up sessions were held for students in “Form 1”. These students do have their first German language classes these days. This time the following topics were covered
* Alpha…
Computer Classes for 8th Grade @ Korando Educational Center
This is the follow up of computer classes for the 8th grade at the Korando Educational Center, taking place on 3 days this week. Each session included a quick recap of the previous session at the begi…
Initial German Class @ Kudho Secondary School
It was the very first German class for this particular class. It was also the very first school class held by anyone from within the Better Me organisation.
Students did have their initial German cla…
Mapping Your Future Success in Education @ Kudho Primary
Due to the low results, the last year students had in the final national exams, the school saw the need to invite speakers to help the new lot and to strategize on how best the students would be motiv…
Computer Class for 7th Grade @ Korando Educational Center
Two initial computer classes for the 7th grade at the Korando Educational Center in 2024 were held, similar to grade 8. After a short introduction by the volunteer we started an open discussion about …
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…
Computer Class for 8th grade @ Korando Educational Center
This is the follow up of computer classes for the 8th grade at the Korando Educational Center, taking place on 3 days this week. Each session included a quick recap of the previous session at the begi…
Computer Class for 8th Grade @ Korando
This was the initial computer class for the 8th grade at the Korando Educational Center in 2024. After a short introduction by the volunteer we started an open discussion about computers in general. T…
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…
Household Visits To Dewo Ngima Beneficiaries and Sponsored Children
– The Objective of The Activity was to visit the beneficiaries supported by Dewo Ngima, to check the progress of those going to Junior High and Those going to Form 1
– The other objective was to enab…
English Class @ Remand Home
Different English class topics with follow up exams….
Mobile Library Session @ Nyalenda Slums
It was beautiful to see how the kids at the slums saw us passing, and they could recognize it was for the Mobile Library. They kept on inviting others. The group got bigger even before we arrived at t…
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…
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…
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…
English Class “Irregular Forms” @ Remand Home
Tuesday’s English class focused on regular and irregular forms of the simple past tense….
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…
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….
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…
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. …
Korando School Closing Ceremony 3rd Term 2023
The celebration day of the school marked the last day of the academic year and signaled the beginning of the holidays. We played games, held a celebration ceremony, and organized lunch….
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…
Grade 4 Ubuntu Art Class @ Korando
Student’s completed an artwork resembling a colourful style portrait. The students listened to instructions step by step until the colouring stage where they were given an opportunity to make their ow…
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…
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….
Art Class Korando
Students were given step by step instructions to complete an artwork of a woman using different coloured pencils. Natalie was meant to give instructions via video call but she could not connect. Dahli…
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 …
Life Skill Session on Self-Confidence at Korando
The purpose of this life skills session with the Korando students was to educate them on self-confidence, and how to best gain self-confidence and utilise it. …
English Class in the Remand Home
Educating the kids in the different body parts and contrubuting to their english vocabulary knowledge. …
Art Class “Composition Theme” @ Korando
Contrubuting to creative skills and art knowledge of the children. …
WORLD CLEANUP DAY 2023
World cleanup day unites volunteers and partners worldwide to rid our planet of trash, litters and mismanaged waste. By joining hands together we are able to achieve incredible things. The idea for th…
English Class with the topic “my dream house”
English Class with the topic “my dream house” at the Remand Home
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