LTSNT
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We dream of turning high school Lycee Thierno Seydou Nourou Tall (LTSNT) into a worthy high school… We dream and believe in this dream.
What once was known as the high of excellence, is now only excellence in name, no longer in reality. 20 years after graduating, we came back only to find that our beloved school is falling apart, literally and figuratively.
LTSNT saw its first cornerstone laid in 1966 and since then has seen many children of Dakar grace its hallways and playground. A public school, run by principal Mrs Madeleine Annie Diandaul SANE COLY, LTSNT hosts roughly 1300 students from all corners of Dakar. Mrs Coly, the first woman principal of the school, is one of the most nurturing and caring principal, if not the most… not to take anything away from her male predecessors. Six years in this position, she still displays unwavered enthusiasm. With her modest yearly budget, she runs a tight ship: from the supporting administrative staff, to the teachers she partners with and empower to perform their jobs, to the students she disciplines, and eagerly rewards.
At the heart of the school, lie the students… what would the school be without its students? Innocent, naive, carefree, joyful, loud, cliquish.. In other words kids will be kids… they cracked a smile on my face for their loving, intelligent, ambitious and tenacious ways. Junior high or high school, they all share the same yard, and the same two buildings. The older ones do look out for the younger ones and it is touching.
1300 students are split into 31 classes, but there are only 26 classrooms: at any given moment there are 5 classes that shuffle around the school, in classes that are not occupied for that period.
Students’ desks in said classrooms are not in good condition at all; the teachers don’t have either a desk or chair; the blackboards are worn out after being painted black over and over and over again, but not one student has complained. I engaged in a small conversation with three 11th grade teenagers… I am seeing all that’s wrong with the school and it really saddens me, they saw all that was available to them as privilege and took none of it for granted. Teenagers wiser beyond their years for not complaining and being thankful for what little they have. I wanted to know them all personally. When asked how long they had been in the school. They all had been there since 7th grade. When asked where they lived, one walks to school; the other takes a gypsy bus for a short commute and the last one has a 2-hour commute one way to make it to school. She said that she might not attend next year because the commute is taking a toll on her and her family and her studies. It should not be like this and it hurts even more that she feels this way because she seems to want to stay in this school, with her friends whom she wants to graduate with.
I visited the bathroom and wondered how and when things escalated to this?! The entire bathroom facilities need to be gutted out and rebuilt adequately to respect privacy, and sanitary norms. What once was the gym, no longer is: the basketball court has no rims to shoot up hoops and the entire field is covered with sand. Beyond a first aid kit, the nurse office lacks necessary supplies to attend to students in case medical emergency. The computer and science labs need their equipment upgraded to be worthy of being called a lab.
The improvements/renovations list is long, but in a conversation with the principal, Mrs Coly reiterates that the cornerstone of education is indeed students, but teachers hold a special place in there and she’s got a dedicated team of teachers who show up still motivated and eager to teach. Alas the teachers need desks and chairs in their classrooms, the very basic for an educator. She wanted to first accommodate the teachers with materials that would allow them to be in a comfortable environment before attending to the laundry list of what needs to be done for the school.
LTSNT is a great public school, with a strong principal, dedicated teachers and helpful staff, yet the school is in dire need of some upgrades and improvements beyond the occasional superficial facelift. In line with this request, I am reaching out to former classmates, schoolmates, friends (near and far, of yesterday and of today) to help me raise $10000 needed to provide for the desks and chairs for the teachers.
LIBRARY
We are not looking to buy Aeron chairs nor smart office desks, but rather decent, durable, and comfortable desks and chairs to accommodate the teachers.
Our Wishlist
Teacher’s Desk
35pcs at $150/pc
Teacher’s Chair
35pcs at $135/pc
Paint
Construction Material for school renovation
Books & School Supplies
Computer and Science Lab Equipments
The list goes on so please pitch in as much as you can as $10,000 is just the bare minimum needed.
Notre plus grande vision est de faire du Lycée Thierno Saidou Nourou Tall un lycée digne de son nom...
D’antan connu comme le lycée d’excellence, le lycée perd ce nom vues les conditions dans lesquelles sont les élèves, les professeurs et le lycée.
Etabli depuis 1966, le lycée a vu défiler dans ses couloirs des enfants des 4 coins du Sénégal. Mme Madeleine Annie Diandial Sane Coly, première proviseure accueille quelques 1300 élèves tous les matins et ne se lasse jamais de son interaction avec eux. Elle encourage et discipline les élèves, supporte et motive les professeurs, assiste son corps administratif.
Que serait cette école sans ces élèves? Naïfs, innocents, exubérants, en d’autres termes, des ados! Quand même touchant de voir que les élèves les plus âgés gardent un œil et sont très protecteurs de leurs cadets.
Mais bien au delà de cette atmosphère joviale, le lycée est en train de se délabrer :Le lycée dispose de 26 salles effectives par contre il en existe 31 classes! 5 classes n’ont pas de salle fixe et donc partagent avec les autres selon les heures creuses. Les bancs ne sont pas en bon état, certains professeurs ont incessamment besoin de tables et de chaises, le tableau noir ne pourrait être qualifié de noir tellement il est usé, les toilettes des garçons et des filles devraient être rasées et reconstruites, le terrain de gym est quasi inexistant, et c’est à peine si l’infirmerie dispose de médicaments pour les premiers soins : Et la liste est longue… tout ne saurait être accompli d’un coup. Le proviseur tient bien à maintenir le niveau de motivation des professeurs qui ne se lassent pas pour se donner à fond afin de doter les élèves d’une bonne éducation, et donc le premier objectif est d’acheter tables et chaises pour les professeurs.
Le lycée TSNT est un excellent établissement, dirigé par un corps professoral de qualité qui tient à l’avenir des élèves et donc nous cherchons à les appuyer selon les moyens dont nous disposerons pour que le lycée puisse retrouver son lustre d'antan . Nous cherchons à collecter $10000 qui serviront à pallier le déficit de 35 tables et 35 chaises
Veuillez contribuer généreusement sous ce site ou rentrer en contact avec nous pour votre contribution éventuelle. Si vous ne pouvez faire votre don a partir de ce site, veuillez rentrer en contact avec nous et nous saurons vous guider comment contribuer votre part.
Nous vous serions très reconnaissants de bien vouloir partager cette page avec vos amis, collègues, connaissances et famille. Merci
What once was known as the high of excellence, is now only excellence in name, no longer in reality. 20 years after graduating, we came back only to find that our beloved school is falling apart, literally and figuratively.
LTSNT saw its first cornerstone laid in 1966 and since then has seen many children of Dakar grace its hallways and playground. A public school, run by principal Mrs Madeleine Annie Diandaul SANE COLY, LTSNT hosts roughly 1300 students from all corners of Dakar. Mrs Coly, the first woman principal of the school, is one of the most nurturing and caring principal, if not the most… not to take anything away from her male predecessors. Six years in this position, she still displays unwavered enthusiasm. With her modest yearly budget, she runs a tight ship: from the supporting administrative staff, to the teachers she partners with and empower to perform their jobs, to the students she disciplines, and eagerly rewards.
At the heart of the school, lie the students… what would the school be without its students? Innocent, naive, carefree, joyful, loud, cliquish.. In other words kids will be kids… they cracked a smile on my face for their loving, intelligent, ambitious and tenacious ways. Junior high or high school, they all share the same yard, and the same two buildings. The older ones do look out for the younger ones and it is touching.
1300 students are split into 31 classes, but there are only 26 classrooms: at any given moment there are 5 classes that shuffle around the school, in classes that are not occupied for that period.
Students’ desks in said classrooms are not in good condition at all; the teachers don’t have either a desk or chair; the blackboards are worn out after being painted black over and over and over again, but not one student has complained. I engaged in a small conversation with three 11th grade teenagers… I am seeing all that’s wrong with the school and it really saddens me, they saw all that was available to them as privilege and took none of it for granted. Teenagers wiser beyond their years for not complaining and being thankful for what little they have. I wanted to know them all personally. When asked how long they had been in the school. They all had been there since 7th grade. When asked where they lived, one walks to school; the other takes a gypsy bus for a short commute and the last one has a 2-hour commute one way to make it to school. She said that she might not attend next year because the commute is taking a toll on her and her family and her studies. It should not be like this and it hurts even more that she feels this way because she seems to want to stay in this school, with her friends whom she wants to graduate with.
I visited the bathroom and wondered how and when things escalated to this?! The entire bathroom facilities need to be gutted out and rebuilt adequately to respect privacy, and sanitary norms. What once was the gym, no longer is: the basketball court has no rims to shoot up hoops and the entire field is covered with sand. Beyond a first aid kit, the nurse office lacks necessary supplies to attend to students in case medical emergency. The computer and science labs need their equipment upgraded to be worthy of being called a lab.
The improvements/renovations list is long, but in a conversation with the principal, Mrs Coly reiterates that the cornerstone of education is indeed students, but teachers hold a special place in there and she’s got a dedicated team of teachers who show up still motivated and eager to teach. Alas the teachers need desks and chairs in their classrooms, the very basic for an educator. She wanted to first accommodate the teachers with materials that would allow them to be in a comfortable environment before attending to the laundry list of what needs to be done for the school.
LTSNT is a great public school, with a strong principal, dedicated teachers and helpful staff, yet the school is in dire need of some upgrades and improvements beyond the occasional superficial facelift. In line with this request, I am reaching out to former classmates, schoolmates, friends (near and far, of yesterday and of today) to help me raise $10000 needed to provide for the desks and chairs for the teachers.
LIBRARY
We are not looking to buy Aeron chairs nor smart office desks, but rather decent, durable, and comfortable desks and chairs to accommodate the teachers.
Our Wishlist
Teacher’s Desk
35pcs at $150/pc
Teacher’s Chair
35pcs at $135/pc
Paint
Construction Material for school renovation
Books & School Supplies
Computer and Science Lab Equipments
The list goes on so please pitch in as much as you can as $10,000 is just the bare minimum needed.
Notre plus grande vision est de faire du Lycée Thierno Saidou Nourou Tall un lycée digne de son nom...
D’antan connu comme le lycée d’excellence, le lycée perd ce nom vues les conditions dans lesquelles sont les élèves, les professeurs et le lycée.
Etabli depuis 1966, le lycée a vu défiler dans ses couloirs des enfants des 4 coins du Sénégal. Mme Madeleine Annie Diandial Sane Coly, première proviseure accueille quelques 1300 élèves tous les matins et ne se lasse jamais de son interaction avec eux. Elle encourage et discipline les élèves, supporte et motive les professeurs, assiste son corps administratif.
Que serait cette école sans ces élèves? Naïfs, innocents, exubérants, en d’autres termes, des ados! Quand même touchant de voir que les élèves les plus âgés gardent un œil et sont très protecteurs de leurs cadets.
Mais bien au delà de cette atmosphère joviale, le lycée est en train de se délabrer :Le lycée dispose de 26 salles effectives par contre il en existe 31 classes! 5 classes n’ont pas de salle fixe et donc partagent avec les autres selon les heures creuses. Les bancs ne sont pas en bon état, certains professeurs ont incessamment besoin de tables et de chaises, le tableau noir ne pourrait être qualifié de noir tellement il est usé, les toilettes des garçons et des filles devraient être rasées et reconstruites, le terrain de gym est quasi inexistant, et c’est à peine si l’infirmerie dispose de médicaments pour les premiers soins : Et la liste est longue… tout ne saurait être accompli d’un coup. Le proviseur tient bien à maintenir le niveau de motivation des professeurs qui ne se lassent pas pour se donner à fond afin de doter les élèves d’une bonne éducation, et donc le premier objectif est d’acheter tables et chaises pour les professeurs.
Le lycée TSNT est un excellent établissement, dirigé par un corps professoral de qualité qui tient à l’avenir des élèves et donc nous cherchons à les appuyer selon les moyens dont nous disposerons pour que le lycée puisse retrouver son lustre d'antan . Nous cherchons à collecter $10000 qui serviront à pallier le déficit de 35 tables et 35 chaises
Veuillez contribuer généreusement sous ce site ou rentrer en contact avec nous pour votre contribution éventuelle. Si vous ne pouvez faire votre don a partir de ce site, veuillez rentrer en contact avec nous et nous saurons vous guider comment contribuer votre part.
Nous vous serions très reconnaissants de bien vouloir partager cette page avec vos amis, collègues, connaissances et famille. Merci
Co-organizers (2)
El Hadji Ndoye
Organizer
Lincoln, RI
Fatou Ba
Co-organizer