Another Graduation

Graduation in Mewah Plantation this evening with teacher Ericson Antolin. The Children's House is one of the most miserable, so fortunately the plantation intends to provide a better house next year. But now basically an old store with holes in floor and roof and only a few small windows. So much more the contrast when the 50 or so children carry out an evening with beautiful dresses, performances, theatre, dancing, singing and high spirits. A good education can be carried out in an old shed! The MC's of the evening were a 12 year old boy and a girl at the same age. Fantastic program, even though it stretched in time far beyond what we normally allow. The Assistant manager held a good speech, where he said that the old saying "like father, like son" should not aply here. That the son of an oil palm harvester need not grow up to be an oil palm harvester again. He could become a manager, as long as we provide him the chance for an education.