Unfortunately the interest from adults learning to read scaled down to very few. For one, it does take some serious effort, and for most that is too much, without getting any monetary profit out of it.
After Amy changed the schedule to afternoon classes and having children come voluntarily, things started to run smoother. Paying a couple of helpers who could take over a class in our absence also helped in that. However, the most encouraging part for us is, that the children who graduated the Glaro literacy class, are also doing much better than their peers in the local elementary school, which is taught in English, their second language.
To encourage the students to finish the course, we take them for a weekend trip to the beach when they finished it. It is a 4h trip from our village, but a highlight to most, as many of them never have seen the ocean before.
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