Teachable Moments.

We have many such moments here in our IGP trainings, but one in particular stood out to me today during our accounting training in Gihembe Camp.

This is a complex training, and one for which we try to invite only those refugees who know how to read and write. However, from time to time there will be someone without literacy skills who is so eager to learn that we will accept them into the class. In that case one of the Refugee Assistants will sit with that person, to make sure they understand the material to help them to take notes.

The woman that you see on the right in this photo is one such eager student and standing next to her is Aimee, one of our Assistants. Aimee did such a wonderful job of bolstering this woman’s confidence that she was willing to come to the front of the room and write her answers to the problem of “where are Joseph’s goats?” on the flip chart in front of the whole class.

And her answer was correct.

Working here is not easy, but moments like these make it all worthwhile.