Mid March brought life in Senegal and at The Diapalante Community Education Centre to a sudden halt! The schools are closed, travel between regions is stopped and within regions is restricted. There is a strict curfew, no-one is allowed out at night. Tom and Nathan, the Project Trust volunteers decided to stay and see out […]

In February the younger members of the Diapalante Centre in Kaolack wrote about life in Kaolack as part of an annual information exchange with Year 2 of Ashwell Primary School. So here is a glimpse of life in Senegal, West Africa, before coronavirus became a pandemic. (To slow down the slide-viewer move the mouse over

Tonight we went out for a change …

We have been in need of extra teaching space in the Centre. So recently we combined the resource room, which was used to aid the younger members of the Centre in developing their French ability with the help of the Centre’s Young Leaders, and the library. Moving each of the shelves was no easy task,

A 40 foot shipping container arrived here from Ashwell last month! This was the result of a lot of hard work from some very generous people who volunteered their time to help hand pack each of the donated resources into the container. Unfortunately some chairs had to remain behind as even a 40 foot container

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

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

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

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