And so here we are at the end of our second semester of conservation education classes. The children are on three-week break before resuming their third and final semester of the 2009 school year. With approximately 63 hours of conservation learning classes already completed and about 42 more hours to go, these 150 kids are truly growing into ambassadors for Rwanda’s mountain gorillas.

On the last day of the semester, following a 20-point exam, we put together pieces of a puzzle of a world map. We hope that this exercise helped to enlighten and reinforce to our students that they do indeed live in a most unique and vital ecosystem that deserves protection and further understanding.

Our students knew the word ‘puzzle’ as a type of game, but never as a ‘tangible’ game.

Kids take turns putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

The puzzle is complete and now it’s time to really examine our world!