In wishing everyone a happy new year, I want especially to thank a very special anonymous donor for supporting SELI’s writing programs. Thank you so much for your generosity! This is an important boost at the beginning of this new year!
You see here some of the students in a SELI Young Writers club at the SDA Primary School in Samuel Town, on the rural Freetown Peninsula. I have just had a wonderful time typing up forty-two final drafts of the writing pieces these class 5 and 6 students have completed, and they tell me they have more to send me!
I will be returning these final copies along with the 3-4 revised drafts attached to them. Each person in the club is trying to complete at least five writing pieces to earn a club booklet of their work, and along the way be better prepared for exams and promotions facing them at the end of the school year.
I do enjoy reading their work. All of them are putting true personal experiences on paper for the first time, and the incidences playing in their heads as they write, matter. What will the effect be on the reader if they put this first, or don’t mention that? And as we all know, they will become not less but more aware of these questions as they move up the ladder from their first writing piece to the last. But they keep going! 👏
