She says, 'When we have a problem, you are the youngest of this house, and you will be able to solve the problem.' " Some of the older women stare uncomprehendingly at the makeshift blackboards that teachers have arranged in their houses, one on the bare plastered wall, one on an old broken door.
In San Giuliano, teachers organized makeshift classrooms under the canvas tents.
"Once I saw people push him in the hallway," said Margielle Stewart, an eighth-grader who came to a makeshift memorial for the teacher at the middle school Tuesday night.
Some locals have also gotten involved in volunteering their time, including acting as teachers in a makeshift school in the camp.
Using a locally developed teaching guide and curriculum, teachers can establish makeshift classrooms almost anywhere.
At the age of 12 Genevieve occasionally attended different makeshift schools run by untrained teachers in the conflict zone, but it was sporadic and only when security permitted.
Teachers who taught in makeshift schools for Lur tribes in the northern villages of Khuzestan recall that their students started school with no comprehension of Persian.
There is also a makeshift school where a few local teachers have started bringing their students, as part of an informal exchange between the children.
The organization supported the recruitment of 1,100 temporary teachers, set up 1,000 makeshift school tents, and supplied about 7,000 school-in-a-box teaching aids and supply kids.
"He climbed on the gate and shook them not to attack the soldiers, but just because he was angry at the army's statement," said a white-haired English teacher squatting in a makeshift tent opposite.
