Current Projects
Bursaries Fund
The priority every year is to support the bursaries fund. This charity joins many individual doners in supporting the children of poor families attending 31 different schools. Currently £5000 has been contributed for 2010 and and 2011 another £5000 is promised. The bursaries fund pays half the annual school fees required which comes to about £30 for each child attending primary school and £200 at secondary school.
Other Projects
£2000 is set aside to provide furnishings and equipment a proportion of which will be sent from the UK
Money is being raised to develop the sports field at Forbes Reef Primary School, where also we intend to build a kitchen which will cost approximately £2000.
The life skills unit at Enkhaba has to be completed.
Two huge water tanks are required for St. Andrews Primary School with over 600 children at a cost of £2000.
On the completion of the Life Skills Unit at Enkhaba Jack Dobson is preparing plans for a small library at Forbes Reef Primary School. At the moment all their books are in a large cupboard and children needing a book have to go through a class room where teaching is taking place. We are also taking on board some ideas for new projects and we will update the website with these exciting ideas as they develop.
On the right is a picture of the agriculture unit being built last year at St. Andrews School. It is now complete, together with chickens and farm and gardening implements. At the bottom on the right is a picture of the completed building.
The new computer classroom at St Andrews received the computers arriving in crates (along with sewing machines) from Bedford. This will be the third primary schools were computer skills are learned.
The same applies to working with sewing machines. Gradually there are people coming on who can make clothes and teach not only the children (boys and girls) but local women as well. And at Forbes Reef there is a woman who has been allowed the use of a machine at home whose skill in making clothes and selling them that has enabled her to build herself a (small) house.
It has been very costly to send computers and sewing machines as well as simple books for the school libraries in crates from the UK. The last consignment of 12 computers and 15 sewing machines with suitable materials of all kinds etc. cost £1,000.00. So the trustees have decided that in future it may be best for sewing machines to be bought in Mbabane.
