Aileen
This is Aileen. She’s fifteen years old but still in grade 4. She had to stop school because of family crisis and poverty. She’s one of our scholars and among the children I tutor every Saturday morning in the house. She’s eager to learn and obviously, in want of attention and big sisterly love.
Clockwise: Rosemarie, Aileen, Nina, Rona
I tutor 4th, 5th and 6th graders on Saturday mornings. They are kids from our church’ Scholarship program and we need to help them increase their GWA at least 1% each year or they’ll be taken out of the scholarship.
Most of the children are more than willing to be taught. Just that no one cared enough to help them. Well, now there’s more than one, there’s the church and the people who are funding their education. They’re not used to being followed up in school. Their parents are either too busy to make a living or are illiterate themselves. So at this stage, the goal is to get them to adopt good studying habits and inculcate the importance of education.
Aileen was one of my room mates when I went to “Kid’s Camp” last April and even then she expressed desire to go back to school and finish. She wouldn’t mind being the oldest in the class as long as she gets education. While others take that privilege for granted, to her, it’s a major deal.
She’s too happy to see it come true and she never forgets to say ‘thank you”. Last Sunday when we saw each other at the church, she thanked me again and said she is enjoying my teaching and added she wishes I had truly been her biological big sister.
Now there’s my incentive, straight from the heart of a 15 year-old girl. No amount of paycheck can top that.
I tutor 4th, 5th and 6th graders on Saturday mornings. They are kids from our church’ Scholarship program and we need to help them increase their GWA at least 1% each year or they’ll be taken out of the scholarship.
Most of the children are more than willing to be taught. Just that no one cared enough to help them. Well, now there’s more than one, there’s the church and the people who are funding their education. They’re not used to being followed up in school. Their parents are either too busy to make a living or are illiterate themselves. So at this stage, the goal is to get them to adopt good studying habits and inculcate the importance of education.
Aileen was one of my room mates when I went to “Kid’s Camp” last April and even then she expressed desire to go back to school and finish. She wouldn’t mind being the oldest in the class as long as she gets education. While others take that privilege for granted, to her, it’s a major deal.
She’s too happy to see it come true and she never forgets to say ‘thank you”. Last Sunday when we saw each other at the church, she thanked me again and said she is enjoying my teaching and added she wishes I had truly been her biological big sister.
Now there’s my incentive, straight from the heart of a 15 year-old girl. No amount of paycheck can top that.
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