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2010 Teachers House Refurbishment

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Forbes Reef Primary School will benefit from the Swazi Government innitiative to enable a new grade 1 teacher to be employed. So it is now essential that an old teachers house is refurbished. It requires a new roof, a Kitchen, indoor sanitation, a bathroom and redecoration throughout. The cost of this is £2000, a fee far less than the cost of building a new house and so please keep your donations coming so we can meet the target of completing this project this calender year so as to be ready for the new influx of grade 1 pupils.

Please keep your donations coming so we can help with these very important units.

2010 The Building

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nkhaba life skills unit The Home economics unit built in 2008/9 was so useful  that another identical unit was requested for Enkhaba Primary School, this has now been completed. These units enable children, both boys and girls, who often have no adults to guide them to learn about nutrition and hygiene. They also gain practical life skills in preparing and cooking food, washing and mending clothes and growing food. 

Lately the gardens of the units have been put to better use to grow food to help in the current economic climate not only to supplement the daily soup ration from the school but also for children to take home. 

Please keep your donations coming so we can help with these very important units.

2010 The Bursary Fund

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The ClassroomAs mentioned before the charity's priority every year is to support the Bursary fund along with other donors. The fund supports over 400 children from poor families. The Bursary Fund policy is to pay half the compulsory school fees. The money goes straight to the relevant schools. The children's families have to find the other half. There are schools of all and denominations and kinds who receive the bursary money.

Our work with this bursary continues to combat the fact that many children in Swaziland do not go to school, this is mainly because of poverty, but it is also compounded by a child's distance from a school and/or the lack of appreciation of the value of schooling.

EMERGENCY NEED

Currently we are looking to raise £2000 for a complete refurbishment of an old teachers house. which hasn't been occupied for over two years. It requires a new roof, a bathroom, an indoor toilet and a new kitchen. This is more cost effective than building a completly new house. Forbes Reef Primary School has been allocated a new teacher because the Swazi Government has decided to support the education of grade one children. Next year it will continue by funding grade two children. (All other children pay compulsory school fees). We hope to complete this project in this calender year in order that the school may take full advantage of this new teacher and the new grade one pupils who will be able to attend.
Please go to our donations page and help us to raise these urgently needed funds.

Life Skills Unit

The Life Skills (Home Economics) unit at Enkhaba Primary School in the North of Swaziland has now been completed.
These units help children to learn to cook, to wash and mend and even make clothes, to learn about nutrition and learn how to grow and make use of the vegetables they grow in the school gardens. Other schools still need these units and your donations will be gratefully received. 

Please go to our donations page and help us to raise these urgently needed funds.