By Kudakwashe Dizha | Coordinator of the Project
Dear Rozaria Memorial Trust Partner
Rozaria Memorial Trust has been supporting Magaya Primary School in the construction of two (2) classroom blocks after the school was destroyed by hailstorm in the year 2008. Both the classroom blocks where roofed in December 2013 and we initially planned to complete the other remain stages in 2014. However not much has been achieved under this period because of limited financial resources. The year 2014 has proved to be a challenging year in relation to the completion of the two (2) classroom blocks at the school. The project’s completion has been stalled by the non-availability of financial resources to cater for cement and labour.
The following work is still outstanding;
• Plastering of the classroom blocks both inside and outside
• Flooring
• Painting
Despite the outstanding work still to be done to the classrooms, the rooms are being in their incopmlete state as the school is facing acute shortage of learning facilities thereby exposing the children to dust and wind.
The local community has already mobilised the locally available material i.e river sand for flooring and pit sand for plastering. What are needed are financial resources to the total of $5000,00 to cater for 200 bags of cement and labour for plastering, flooring and painting. The non-completion of the classroom blocks have proved a nightmare to a school that has only three (3) classroom blocks that in a habitable state. The other one has been condemned by the Ministry of Education as it is posing danger to the children because of its dilapidated condition.
As we work with towards the rehabilitation of the school’s infrastructure, we have sourced library books from Books for Africa for the school worth more than US$5 000, 00. The library books range from English reading skills, Leisure, Maths and Science among many others. However the effective utilisation of the books is being hampered by lack of infrastructure to accommodate the books for the day to day use by the school.
In the year 2015 we are prioritising the completion of construction of the classroom blocks so as to provide a conducive and habitable for the children at the school. This in turn, will help to improve the pass rate at the school whilst at the same time increase the school’s enrolment which has been going down for the past five (5) years because of poor and inadequate infrastructure at the school.
Your continued support and interest to this project makes us to realise our dream of providing better learning facilities for the students at Magaya Primary School. For any comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact us at rozaria@africaonline.co.zw or rozariamemorialtrust@hotmail.com
Best regards
Kudakwashe Dizha
Coordinator
Rozaria Memorial Trust
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