School Graduation

This week’s big event was the final year graduation ceremony at Bishop Nkola secondary school – the school set up and run by AICT in Shinyanga. The school was established in 2009 with one student and has grown to over 200 this year. In line with AICT’s development philosophies, the school focuses particularly on educating girls from poorer backgrounds who are often more likely to miss out on education. 

 

There are 8 classrooms, each with a blackboard and desks but no windows. The school plans on increasing numbers over the next few years and is currently involved in building further dorms and a kitchen.

Graduation was a 5 hour affair with plenty of speeches, lots of singing and dancing and even some comedy. It turned out that it was also being used to welcome us so from our esteemed seats at the ‘top table’ we had to chip in with a couple of off-the-cuff speeches but no dancing, thankfully!