Meredith Brocklebank 04/07/2017 Meredith Brocklebank 04/07/2017

Book Tuktuk

At Flame we believe that a tough childhood should not mean a tough future... that each kid we work with has the potential to become a leader in their community.

I shot a quick video today of the Flame Book Tuktuk... check it out, it's shirt but cute!

The Book Tuktuk is similar to Mobile Medical but instead of medicines, it brings BOOKS to kids who either aren't in school, or who are -but still need extra help. Read to a kid and a kid will read... great concept if the family are literate or if there are books at home, but with our families this isn't often the case.

One of our case workers, Poeurn had the idea of bringing books to the slums. He remembers when he was a kid, that there just weren't any books at home and now as a Flame case worker he visits our families, and saw he same thing. He asked if Flame could do something ... and with a huge thanks to St Paul's Collegiate, the Book Tuktuk was born,

Poeurn meeting with one of the families, with five young kids, none were in school... and they had lost their mother

Sokann is our book Tuktuk staff, otherwise known as the book Tuktuk star!! He drives the Tuktuk and teaches the kids. The original idea was more like a mobile library but Sokann quickly found that even kids up to grade 4, were simply unable to read. So, responding to the need, he has turned this into a little mobile school, reading to the kids and teaching them their letters. The kids who attend the Book Tuktuk are often responsible for their younger siblings, so Sokann arranges a clean tarpoline for the littlies and today's activity was colouring in.

If you like projects like this, please help us! We need regular monetary support to continue our work with these kids, to identify ones who should be in school and then help overcome the obstacles and break the poverty cycle. Check out our website and see what else we are doing!

Book tuktuk

Meredith Brocklebank 09/12/2016 Meredith Brocklebank 09/12/2016

St Paul's Collegiate comes to Flame

A group of 19 students from St Paul's Collegiate in Hamilton volunteered at Flame over the last week, doing painting projects and teaching English and ukulele. It has been a brilliant time and our Activity Centre at Sensok looks amazing! Thank you guys!

Flame are thankful for the generosity of this awesome kiwi school, they have funded the Book TukTuk, Flame's latest project, bringing books into the slums to reinforce learning, as well as identify kids who are not in school! This was the brainchild of Poeurn, our case worker extraordinaire, who recognized that kids in school often don't have books at home, and that there are still so many kids in the slums who aren't enrolled in school.