By Theo Groot | Project Leader
Great news.... next week we will brake the ground for the building of the new kitchen. Every day the school provides 190 kids with porridge before the school starts and a hot lunch. Cooking in our present 'kitchen' is not easy as it is not more than a shed. The open fire is not only a health hazard for the lady who cooks but also consumes large quantities of firewood. Uganda loses 2% of its forest every year and firewood is one of the great contributors. In the new kitchen we will install two energy saving stoves and this should halve our firewood consumption. The container we obtained earlier this year (see our July newsletter) is a great help and provides us with a secure place to store education materials and the stock of beans and maize flour. It allows us to buy all we need for a whole term at once so that we can purchase at a better price. On google earth you can find our school, just click on the attached file to see a picture. Even the container we placed in July is already visible! This month we started the third and last term of this school year and we are happy with the progress we are making. It is the third full year we are in charge of the school and the results are promising. We notice a clear decline in the number of days children are absent due to ill health, academic results have improved and we are sure that our feeding program plays an important role. Teachers as well as pupils start to like the more creative activities; formerly the focus would be exclusively on the so-called academics. We do not deny that it is indeed important for children to pass the national exams successfully, we have made a great effort to work towards the development of the whole child: head, hart and hands. Last thing to mention is our financial report over 2009; it got the approval of our external auditor. It gives an interesting reading for everyone who want to know a bit more about the costs of providing good education in Uganda. We hope to send you more news about the construction before the end of November as the contractor promised that the construction should be ready by then.
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