When students crave the gifts of learning, their desire can unify and enrich an entire community.
At the Nouveau Jardin Community School in Moyo, Chad, learning was on hold due to the teachers’ lack of chalk to write lessons on the blackboard. Determined to solve this problem, students of all ages joined together in an agricultural project to both fund their education and enhance life in their community.
The students used a Full-Circle Learning grant to plant a garden in their town. Corn, sweet potatoes, and leafy greens all flourished in the sun. The students planted in such abundance that their new garden produced plenty of food to sell in the market, generating the money to buy chalk for their beloved teachers.
The students proudly tended this long-term and sustainable garden grown to fund the school. With this need met, they wanted to do more. Embracing the habit-of-heart of unity, they worked to bring in a harvest that would feed economically vulnerable members of the community with no charge.
A handful of seeds can transform the lives of young and old alike. Now the Nouveau Jardin School truly lives up to its name, a “new garden.”
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Brilliant Star became the first school in Chad to hostFull-Circle Learning trainings and translations. Visits to remote rural areas brought new skills and strategies to nomadic educators as well as villages. Children in various schools strived to master the habits of heart, to care for one another as one family, and to teach their parents conflict resolution and mindsets that would prevent corruption. Full-Circle Learning concepts continued to motivate students who extended their participation to include distance learning during the pandemic.
In 2020, Lynn Whitehead, the founder of Brilliant Star, rejuvenated the program, diving deeper into the process of adapting and translating material and guiding the staff and regional facilitators. As a result, the Education Ministry monitored the training, praising the school and the potential impact of Full-Circle Learning on the quality of teaching in Chad. The following pictures feature:
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