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Last autumn the Diapalante Community Education Centre asked its teenage members to volunteer as young leaders, leading after-school learning activities for primary school children. Over thirty teenagers stepped forward to run games and activities to help the primary school children master French. The Diapalante “French club” was born. These young leaders  now motivate and guide the …

Diapalante youngsters step up to the teaching challenge. Read More »

As the weather won’t let you forget, it’s that time of year again: summertime! Although nowhere near as hot as Senegal, I hope you are all making the most of the British sun. Sadly for me however, this also means that my year in Kaolack with Diapalante is drawing to an end. There’s no doubt …

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Here at Diapalante, we are very lucky to have a small collection of Lego in the library. Lego, and other games like it, are quite often overlooked in Britain in terms of education, but I’ve found this year that it can be a versatile tool to teach a vast number of subjects – and nobody …

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Everyone at Diapalante had a lot of fun creating our very own t-shirts! We used iron-on decals to print the Diapalante logo onto white t-shirts, and after some experimentation we perfected it, and create our very own Diapalante Centre T-shirt!  

Celebrated every year on the 5th June, World Environment Day is organised by the United Nations to help raise awareness for the protection of the environment. Every year the campaign has a theme – this year’s theme was ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, encouraging people to reduce their use of disposable plastics. Here at Diapalante, we wanted …

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Here at Diapalante, we try to teach across all the subjects, often covering different ones at the same time. As part of our theme of citizenship, some of the members had the opportunity to improve both their English and their IT skills by responding to the question, ‘Why was the Diapalante Centre created?’. Here is …

Fallou Diop’s view of Diapalante? Read More »

Here in Senegal, we are in the middle of the month-long celebration of Ramadan. This means that for the next month, all Muslims who are physically able will be neither eating nor drinking between 5am and 7pm. This includes Master P and a large majority of the members at Diapalante, and I have been fasting …

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Here at Diapalante, we teach a range of subjects, often covering different ones at the same time. As part of our theme of citizenship, some of the members had the opportunity to improve both their English and their IT skills by responding to the question, ‘Why was Diapalante Centre created?’. Here is the response of  …

Abdou’s English Lesson Read More »

Recently at Diapalante, we have been working with members of all ages on the subject of ‘Respect’. This included discussions on what exactly is respect, different types of respect, and how everyone can respect Diapalante Centre, the staff, and the other members! With some of the younger members, this culminated in a debate on what …

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At the Diapalante Community Education Centre the younger members enthusiastically set about making hexaflexagons quite unaware that, as well as a fun craft puzzle, they were doing a maths activity. It was a rewarding exercise, the hexaflexagons got everbody asking questions and trying to work out the answers with their friends. The first challenge was …

A Crafty Bit of Maths! Read More »