BUILDING
THE SCHOOL
On the scheduled date the animals
arrived early at the site to commence work in building the school. They loved
the project and gave their all in actualizing it. Most of the elderly among
them were uneducated. They could neither read nor write in their mother tongue
or in the tongue of the missionaries who brought enlightens to them hundreds of
years ago.
Due to illiteracy, many of them could
not get good jobs; they were employed mainly as farm hands, bricklayers and
other types of menial labor.
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Working as a laborer was difficult and
the take home pay was quite small. One had to endure all forms of embarrassment
and pass through severe financial difficulties just to be able to survive.
Haven passed through all these difficulties they made a vow that they would do
all that is in their power to give education to their young ones.
But in this they were also faced with
severe challenges: The school fees charged per child by the schools was clearly
out of the reach of many of them. Would they sit down, fold their hands and
watch their young ones, their only hope for a better tomorrow suffer the same
fate as they did?
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You can therefore imagine how elated
these animals were at the pronouncement of their head wolf. This surely was a
welcome development and they swore to give their hall in ensuring the project
comes to a fruitful end.
Another reason why many of them
supported the idea was because they felt that an evening class or something of
that sort would be organized with which they can use to update themselves
academically.
With this they can now read the Holy
Book themselves and not have to depend on anyone else to do so for them.
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The animals gave in their all to this
project. They worked effortlessly to ensuring the project came to a successful
end. Those who could not commit themselves to daily labor gave generously to
the work in terms of money and other valuables.
Although what each of them gave was
small, they gave all they had. Out of their poverty they gave that which they
could afford. Many of them sold whatsoever belongings they had and brought the money
to the fellowship. The wolves gave nothing, they only appear in the premise
once a day, gallivanted about the premises clad in their beautiful attires
nodding their heads here and there like the agama lizard scribbling some write
up in the big books they carried about.
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Not once did the wolverines brought milk
or food for the working animals. The only time they visited the site was when
the young wolves were back home from their schools which they attended in
foreign lands.
Even then, they did no work in the site
but just strolled about the site as if they were on a picnic with the young
wolverines twisting their waists and giggling aloud like a group of spoilt
girls, while the other animals toiled hard in the rain and sunshine so as to
complete this work on time.
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At last after several animal years on
the Caspian planet, the school and the University was completed. The animals
were very happy. The buildings were architectural masterpieces to animal
standard. They were laid out neatly on a very large parcel of land. Carpet
grasses lined the ground while beautiful colored flowers and trees lined the
streets and lanes in the very vast expanse of land used for this wonderful
venture.
The dedication service was slated for
that very week and commencement of academic activities was scheduled to take
off that same week of the dedication. The fees for each department of this
project would be announced in due course. This announcement was written in the
circular neatly pasted and distributed all over the new university campus by
the chancellor, the head wolf.
The story continues.
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