2. Who opposed it?
2.1 The strongest opposition came from the Salvation Army which insisted (at the time) that all their teachers should be Christians, and that they should be trained on the job. We resisted that approach vigorously and eventually we prevailed.
2.2 Several MOEs were reluctant in the beginning but several of their Education Acts required that all children between ages 5 and 15 should receive a formal education. We always reverted to their own laws to commence our arguments. Where no laws existed we used the fact that similar programs exist in this or that country.
2.3 The biggest difficulty was finding physical space. In most instances, we literally had to visit different schools with MOE officials and proposed adjustments to existing areas to make them suitable.