Dear Friends and Donors!
Thank you again for your very kind and generous donations - which keep coming in! As you know, we give absolutely all our funds to building and developing the Marc Bolan School Of Music and Film and its community in terms of top professional building work, teaching and musical resources. Our past students have already started their own video and music projects and companies. And the completion and reality of the well is another phenomenal success. We would like to acknowledge the incredible help of Mr Carlton Sandercock and his Official Marc Bolan Merchandise Co. in donating so much to this. This company was formed a result of a meeting in London in 2014 between Gloria Jones, Prresident and Director of The Marc Bolan School Of Music and Film, Jed Dmochowski, Director and Treasurer, and Carlton Sandercock. Since then Carlton has raised many thousands of pounds for the school and its students over the years, and for that, and the well, we are eternally grateful. Hand in hand with the donations we have received through GlobalGiving, we acknowledge again, through our deepest and most sincere gratitude, all that has been given. We will keep building! We will keep reporting!
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Dear Supporters and kind, interested People!
Just to add a few pictures of the opening of our well! Here we see people of Madine Village pumping and drinking clean and pure water from their brand new well for the first time ever in their history! Designed and built by Engineer Philip Mansaray, architect of the Marc Bolan School of Music and Film, Sierra Leone, and paid for by our generous and life-changing fund donors! The images below include our Director Bai Koroma giving the keys to the well to the Madine Village Cheif.
Once again, thank you!
Please help us finish building the Marc Bolan School with your kind donations. See previous reports for ,more details and information. Only $65,000 needed to complete it!
Gloria Jones President and Director
Rolan Feld President
Bai Koroma Director
Jed Dmochowski Director and Treasurer
Dear friends,
Its been a couple of months since our last report but wewhat great news we have! We are celebrating the completion of the Clean Water Well we have built for our village local to The Marc Bolan School of Music and Film. In response to urgent need, the well was designed by the architect and engineer of our Marc Bolan School, Philip Mansaray. He has designed, planned and overseen the building of the well for the people Madine village - a village which has NEVER had access to clean and pure water before. Built by local workmen, the highly professional standard of the well will ensure clean water for generations. On completion the well was sanitised and tested by the State Health Authority, and now children and their families are far less at risk of catching water-borne diseases and illnesses. The people will also save much time every week by not having to walk and carry heavy loads just in order to be able to wash, cook and clean everyday.
We are thrilled at the success of this project - we are changing people's lives for the better, See the pictures below, the stages of hard work, completion and celebration. And, if you can, please help us finishing our school building itself. WE still need $65,00! For more about our school building please see previous reports. We are devoted to our task, we are trustworthy and we achieve our targets - all to teach and inspire our students to develop their skills, talents and faith in the value of their lives.
Gloria Jones President and Director
Rolan Feld President
Bai Koroma Director
Jed Dmochowski Director and Treasurer
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Since our last report there are two areas of great success we'd love to tell you about:
The first is that we have now raised the money necessary to complete our Water Well Borehole project. Now that we have reached April the water table has dropped to a level that we can dig the well down to in order to have clean water all the year round. The work is being completed right now. Your kind help means that the people of this village (see previous reports) can now drink clean without fear of disease etc. A truly wonderful and real step forward in what is being done thanks to our brilliant and dedicated students.
The second great success is that our students continue to achieve as performers and scholars at the highest level. The images and links below show one of our students performing in a video celebrating peaceful national elections (itself made by our graduate students). Asa well as this another of our dear students has achieved a First Class Degree - after being given the opportunity of a safe and secure place of learning at The Marc Bolan School of Music and Film in Sierra Leone.
In addition to these achievements other students of The Marc Bolan School have set up their own film and video companies and are doing very well, with orders for films coming through from all areas of life in Sierra Leone.
We HAVE: Given our vulnerable young people skills and belief in themselves.
Given our students technical know-how and work-experience.
Given our community faith in their own talents and energy.
Built a water-well and given access to clean water, long-term, to a local village,
Given food, clothes and sustenance to our most vulnerable children over sevral years.
Help us complete the building of our school, Help us to help our students achieve and find fulfilment in their valuable work. Any amount from $5.00 to $5,000 will help us meet our target of now $65,000 ! We ARE making a huge difference!
Please make a donation!
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Once again our students have inspired our school architect and builders with their brilliant documentary films. The 'Water Sanitation' documentary conceived, filmed and produced by our students has resulted in the making of clean water wells in Sierra Leone. Below are pictures taken at the village where we are building our borehole - the people there have greeted our students' initaiative with open arms and are directing our help to maximise the benefits the new well will bring them. Using funds so very kindly donated we are able to address a very important issue - only 2% of people in Sierra Leone have unproblematic access to clean water. Our work will result in a significant improvement in the health and hygiene in the village. This is particularly important for the children there. We will publish an update as soon as the Clean Water Well is completed!
As well as the above we continue to build our Marc Bolan School Of Music and Film in Makeni nearby. Kindly visit our website for all the latest news about our students and courses they are studying. In another new development we are now offering our students studies in IT so that they can participate more fully in this computer age and share not only their projects but also the fruits of their talents online. As always, please help us with your kind donations; we still have a way to go to funding the building the rest of the school, and we are very determined to give our students the very best.
Many, many thanks.
Gloria Jones
Rolan Feld
Jed Dmochowski
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