Our first week in Kigali was predominantely coloured by connecting people and preparing the following week’s work. That work contained the mapping of the schoolground, doing some paper tests with the children, having contacts with local contacts and preparing the installations on the school’s XO laptops. Talks to the local OLPC organization and the Ministry of Education gave us some directions for the upcoming tests of our activity. We settled in the local ESRI office and tried to see get to know parts of this fast developing city.

Here are some impressions of Kigali:

Not to forget the Kagugu Primary School where the tests will take place:

After the installations some teachers could try the activity and we had a lot of fun with the children.

While installing our activity on the school’s laptops we have found some „very special“ activities…

The next step in the preperation for next week test was a mapping of the school ground, to provide a base map for the geoactivity. The school ground of the Kagugu Primary School is quite big with a lot of buildings and nice places. Theodore helped us with the mapping and we’ve got through quuickly and had some chat with the teachers and children.

School ground with flag

Kagugu School Area before mapping