By Tracey Neale-Ferreira | Project Leader
We would like to sincerely thank all our sponsors for having such a caring and giving heart because without your financial support it would not be possible to continue the work we do at Roko 20 Academy.
An update on activities at Roko 20 Academy
Day Care Centre
In response to requests from our sponsored mothers we are pleased to announce the opening of our new Day Care Centre.
Following a recent instruction from the Ministry of Education preventing children younger than 4 in the classroom we decided that a Day Care Centre would enable us to help the younger siblings of our sponsored pupils to an early start in education as well as allowing the parent free time to search for work.
Always thinking of ways to become self-sustaining financially we opened up the Day Care to children of working parents who are looking for affordable child minding facilities.
Yvonne is 3 years old, the youngest in a family of 8 children. She used to be carried by her mother from village to village in search of casual work to feed her family. Now she is at the Roko 20 Day Care Centre with other young children enjoying games, making art, reading books and watching videos as we prepare her for formal schooling.
Parents Self Help Group
We are happy now to be fully supported by parents of our sponsored pupils as they continue to volunteer twice a month at school as a way of paying back for assisting their children. Its humbling to see everyone working together doing what they can for the sole purpose of providing pupils with a decent education. Their help goes a long way to lighten the load of our two cooks who have a lot of work preparing breakfast, breaktime snacks and lunch as well as cleaning the compound, classes and latrines.
To further help these parents become financially self-sustaining we have formed a Self-Help Group. This is a new group of mothers who meet at school every month to discuss ways of raising money for start-up businesses and projects. They are each regularly contributing a small amount towards a savings scheme.
Kind regards.
Tracey Neale-Ferreira
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