If there were awards for the most fun teacher, or the most innovative, or the one who goes the extra mile, Ildephonse would win them all, hands down.
He took part in our 'Let's Read" programme in 2016 and since then has put all his energy into being a Reading Club leader in Rwanda. He even spends his evenings making his own toys and learning tools… from scratch.
He makes the glue and the markers. And most heroic of all, when he saw how children struggled outside in the harsh sun or the pouring rain, he built an annex on to the side of his house so that the children in the village would always have somewhere to read.
Ildephonse wants to leave a legacy for not just his village, but the entire country.
WITH YOUR SUPPORT WE WERE ABLE TO
- train local partners to bring ‘Let’s Read’ training to many more communities,
- inspire and develop more wonderful teachers like Ildephonse,
- create teacher training that addresses local needs and can be translated for local communities,
- provide care and support to children who needed it.
"I was so interested in it [training] because I didn’t get a chance to finish my studies so I wanted to help the
"little children to know how to read and write at an early age so that they can complete their studies and not be like me.
"I want to continue my talent, because talent never stops, when you begin to use it and continue to use it. I wish to continue using it, I wish to continue to work, training children about reading culture, because children will be always born. As they are born, I have to take them and teach them the reading culture. To continue like this, until the end of my life.
"Thank you very much, I think that all you see I achieved, it is because of Save the Children. All of my achievements, I was trained by Save the Children."
