Dr Nancy Priston

One of the most important, and enjoyable, parts of my work out here is the education workshops I do with the local school children. Over the past 13 years I’ve run workshops in schools across the island. Thanks to the generosity of The Canning Trust and everyone who sponsored me and donated to my fund raising activities I have been able to continue this work this year too.

Basically it involves half day workshops in local primary schools (age 6/7 – 11). With the help of Pak Mantan, the ex-headman of La Bundo Bundo who is also a well loved local elder, I do a range of activities with the children. This year we did an interactive presentation, held drawing competitions, made posters for the schools and activity books for the children. The focus is on monkeys but we talk about preserving the forest for all animals.

This blog post is a bit photo heavy but I think the best way to show you all what it’s like is to see the photos 🙂 so I apologize now!

To start with though here is a little video to give a taster of the presentation

We take all our own kit to the schools. They have no electricity so we have to take a generator too (which is unfortunately a little temperamental!)

The children are usually pretty excited about the workshops – in fact they are queueing up to get in 🙂 And their parents and siblings often peek in from doors and windows to watch too!

And now on to the workshops! 🙂