James Rumford

The author, James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer shows how important education is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school. In anticipation of their first day of school, some children of Chad, Africa wonder if they will learn to read and write and have notebooks and pencils. Upon arriving at their destination, there is no school building, just a teacher who teaches them their first lesson. They will...

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