The youngest students in the school with their chalk and slates. (Copy)
Image this: 100 five-year-olds in a single classroom! (Copy)
Outside at recess (Copy)
School's out! (Copy)
Students in CM1 (Class 5) take an exam (Copy)
Monsieur Edouard and his CM1 (Class 5) class. (Copy)
Edouard and a math lesson (Copy)
Kids of Doumbouo (Copy)
Kids of Doumbouo (Copy)
Madame Jacqueline and Monsieur Jean, teachers of Doumbouo (Copy)
The first delivery of cement to the school (Copy)
The oldest boys help unload the cement (Copy)
Doumbouo's primary school as the morning mist burns off (Copy)
The floors of the classrooms were torn up to prepare for cementing. (Copy)
School continued amongst the construction. (Copy)
Doumbouo students on a misty morning (Copy)
With benches moved outside during construction, the youngest kids lounge. (Copy)
All dressed up and ready for school (Copy)
The youngest students of Doumbouo (Copy)
Older girls help carry sand for mixing the cement (Copy)
Joy in participation (Copy)
Bucket after bucket, kids carried water to mix cement to build their own school (Copy)
The walls are plastered with cement (Copy)
At first, we plastered on the lower falls for fear of funding shortages. (Copy)
Delivering sand to the cement mixing station (Copy)
Docteur Jean-Marie, the school's very youngest student, with bucket in hand (Copy)
Doumbouo students, excited about the changes. (Copy)
The first completed classroom floor. Jean, Lindsay, and Noël. (Copy)
Breaking ground, literally. Mud bricks are crushed to raise the floor level. (Copy)
Shade from the sun. (Copy)
Angele-Rita with baby Kesnel (Copy)
Students parade on February 11th, Youth Day. (Copy)
The flag is raised on Monday morning. (Copy)
Cement is mixed right on the classroom floor. (Copy)
A little helper pauses for a photo. (Copy)
Edouard was a mason before he became a teacher. (Copy)
Girls huddle around a book at recess. (Copy)
The walls are plastered and whitewashed (Copy)
Water-based paint was used on the upper walls, washable oil-based on the lower. (Copy)
Lindsay Clarke, under Alex Moore's instruction, paints Canada. (Copy)
Monsieur Jean, head teacher, works on his grade books. (Copy)
Madame Noël had never painted before - but took the project into her own hands (Copy)
Madame Cécile paints a climate map of Africa. (Copy)
Lindsay (with Baby Lindsay #1) and teachers before Madame Yvette's masterpiece! (Copy)
Students plant trees with Peace Corps volunteer Megan Stalheim (Copy)
Students parade on May 20th, National Day. (Copy)
The honor students in CP, the second youngest class. (Copy)
Edouard and his students, proud of their new classroom. (Copy)
Jean, a proud, determined, and jolly teacher. (Copy)
Showing off her new classroom. (Copy)
Lindsay and her colleagues after an after-school teacher's English class (Copy)
Lindsay is honored by being titled Mafo Nkeuh, Queen Mother of Children (Copy)
Lindsay and the Chief of Balatet in Doumbouo, where she holds her title Mafo (Copy)
L-R: Chief of Baghonto, Lindsay, Nkengsa, Chief of Balatet, Balatet Queen Mother (Copy)