Mrs. Comfort has taught at our flagship school for nineteen years. She wrote us a letter we asked permission to share.
Dear friends of YACT,
You asked me what changed since the library was built. I have thought about this for a week before writing, because I wanted to give you the real answer and not the polite one.
The polite answer
Attendance is up. Reading scores are up. We have more books than we know what to do with, which is a kind of problem I have never had in nineteen years of teaching.
The real answer
The children walk differently now.
The impact is felt not only among the children, but across the YACT community especially in the relationships between staff and myself.
I remember when I first met Wokeyim; she came into my office asking to intern with me. I never would have expected that the same young girl who came in every day for months in 2022 to teach our students English Language and Civic Education would have such a lasting impact—one that is still being felt today.
This is my official thank you to the entire team, and to everyone who has contributed in any way to making this possible.
— Mrs. C.
