Tag: school

Little girl in red skirt playing piano
Spending time with the children of Chongjin

Spending time with the children of Chongjin

Visit most countries and you will be shown their grand monuments, historic sites, beautiful landscapes. Visit North Korea and you will see those sights too. But they are also keen that you meet some of their people and see how they live. Carefully selected people, that is. In the city of Chongjin, where major sights are relatively few, we had the chance to visit two very different schools.

Man in white African dress walking past painted building
Wide Open Walls in a Gambian forest

Wide Open Walls in a Gambian forest

It has become quite usual to see murals on many of the walls of our cities. Whether we call it graffiti or street art; whether we love it or hate it; it is part of the urban landscape. But do we expect to see it in a remote rural village in the Gambia?