A recorded skype presentation to Kenya refugee camps for children to access education even if their country is not stable because of wars

1. Presented by Phuti Ragophala
An online educator in Limpopo
Province,Capricorn District Polokwane South
Africa.
Motivating Refugee children in the
Kakuma Camp Kenya

2. Introduction
April was poetry month
Did you take time to reflect about
poetry?
Did you write a poem for your self?
Did you read any poem in April
month?
WoW! I believe you did it. Well done!

3. What is poetry?
 Another way of expressing yourself
 Another way of conveying the message
 Another way of advocating the message
 Another way of speaking and teaching
 Another way of sharing ideas
 Another way of telling people about
yourself/ any thing that inspires you.

4. Kinds of poems
Sonnet: short rhyming poem with 14
lines
Praise and singing : poem praising
yourself/another person etc
Limericks:poem with 5 lines it’s a
witty poem
Haiken
Epic : narrative poem

5. I learnt that you are refugee children
in a camp in Kenya, very passionate
about education, goal orientated ,
vision driven , loves education and
have big plans about your future.
I thought this poem will inspire you to
work even harder for your bright
future. I used it many times with other
learners and they are now far in life.

6. Diamond in the making
YOUNG I MAY BE TODAY,
LIKE A BLACK UGLY COAL
I FEEL TRAPPED BY SCHOOL
I FEEL PRESSURE
I FEEL HEAT

7. I FEEL DARKNESS
BUT THESE MAKE ME A DIAMOND
I WILL THEN GET OUT OF DARKNESS
I WILL BECOME UNBREAKABLE
I WILL BECOME VALUABLE

8. I WILL BECOME APPRECIATED
I WILL BE WITH KINGS AND QUEENS
I WILL BECOME TRULY SPECIAL
YES, ONE DAY,I WILL BECOME A Diamond
Written by Mosimaneotsile
Mohlake(University of Limpopo ) South
Africa.

9. Interpretation
Like a black ugly coal!
Coming from impoverished family background, we feel
like black ugly coals that are not useful, unwanted and
despised.

10. “I feel trapped by school, I feel heat!”
When you are at school , you feel like you are trapped by
reading, writing, doing homework,classwork and many
activities. You feel heat like a coal in fire!

11. “I will one day get out of darkness, be
like a diamond!”
The writer is comparing the coal in the heat that turns into diamond after being
long heated and refined by fire. Learners who works hard will one day be like a
diamond no longer like a coal because they would be refined and reshaped in a
fire to become e beautiful diamonds

12. I WILL BECOME UNBREAKABLE
I WILL BECOME VALUABLE
I WILL BECOME APPRECIATED
I WILL BE WITH KINGS AND QUEENS
I WILL BECOME TRULY SPECIAL

13. “Yes One day I become a diamond”