It makes you wonder how the people live. The special needs school I work at is a new facility completed last October under the sponsorship of the Lions Club and with funding from Futures Fund. There are 22 students and many more need to attend, however some have difficulty getting to and from the school. I am also planning to begin a reading program one morning a week for ten to 16 year olds who will come from one of the primary schools in New Amsterdam. I've been working with them in the spring term, and of course the major problem is they're not reading.
Literacy is a big problem here in Guyana.
I work as a carpenter, assisting the parish and community where I can. One day I had the opportunity to help a young woman who had two small children. Forced to move out of their home, she wanted to fix up a place in the lowlands where they could live. I had never seen anything like it. Her new home consisted of a wooden frame sitting in a foot of water, and a partial roof of tin.