The cracked chalk connection to learning  World Vision
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versionPDF versionPDF version  Ordinarily broken chalk never
meant much to most children except perhaps for the purpose of
pelting one another with the fragmented pieces. While most grade
fives dash out of class and head home, eleven year old Amina and
a few others linger behind quickly gathering left-over chalk
from the day’s lessons.  With enough saved up chalk pieces Amina
will put it to good use to teach her siblings when she visits
them at her father’s homestead. Amina is from a polygamist
family. During the school term she lives with her mother in Fuwa
village in the seaside town of Tanga region. During the school
holidays she travels over to Amani village where her father,
siblings and stepmother reside.         “After school hours I go
round all classrooms to pick up pieces of chalk left on the
floor so that during the holiday I make a blackboard and can
teach my siblings what I was taught in