Building a library

Rodney Fisher (48) is a maths and science teacher at Hilton Head Preparatory School in southern California. He grew up in in Factreton, Maitland. Together with his students, he raised more than R70 000 for Primêre Skool Factreton. The money will be used to turn one of the classrooms into a library. Rodney recently visited the school, with six American students, and brought donations of books and stationery. While on his annual visit home last year, the school principal, Saul Isaacs, told him the school had no library. Back in California, Rodney organise the fund-raising. Before moving to the US, Rodney taught at various schools in Hout Bay, Manenberg and Woodlands in Mitchells Plain. He started teaching at the age of 18, not yet fully qualified, in Manenberg. In the 1980s he obtained a degree in sports science at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1997 he left for the US on a study bursary from Eastern Michigan University, where he studied sports medicine.