"Kachele" Primary School Building Project

GOALS:

We have made our first major milestone! The Kondwa Children"s Foundation has raised $30,000 towards our $150,000 building costs goals, enough to build the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms! Construction should being early 2008!

We still need $120,000 for the other classrooms plus the yearly operating costs once the new school is open in 2009.

Click on a number by the tree to learn what an amount will accomplish.

Project Description:

This project is an extension of the excellent program currently in place for younger orphans at Kondwa Day Center.

The land for the new primary school, purchased with help from private donors.

Young children attending Kondwa Day Centre for orphans, receive basic pre-school level instruction and two meals per day. When they graduate from the center, they are dispersed among several local primary schools.

Unfortunately, without the direct supervision of committed, responsible adults, many of these children slip through the cracks. Much of the stability they gain at the day center is lost as they age.

So far, approximately 250 children have “graduated” from the center. The new primary school will allow these children to continue receiving education, nutrition, and counseling from this excellent facility as they grow older.

The primary school will be overseen by the same director, Angela Malik, and will eventually have classes for grades 1-7. Our new school even has a name! Angela has christened it "Kachele", named after a kind of fig tree. Kachele’s provides cool shade to people, just as the school will provide a respite for the children.

Costs:

Facilities:

The Kondwa Children’s Foundation has committed to raising $150,000 towards the construction of the new primary school for orphans in Ng’ombe Compound.

These facilities include 7 classrooms (grades 1-7), girls and boys showers and toilets, a kitchen, storeroom, a school office, and a security guard's house.

Read more about the cost estimates for each of these facilities.

Operational Costs:

The Kondwa Children’s Foundation has committed to contribute $50,000 per year towards the operating expenses of the new school. These costs include utilities, teacher salaries, children's meals, school supplies, maintenance and janitorial expenses, and administrative expenses.

How to help:

This little girl at Kondwa is pround to show you that she has learned to count. Can she count on you to help her continue her education?

With needs for both the initial buildings and ongoing yearly expenses, there are many ways you can contribute to this great project!

• Make a one time donation towards the building costs
• Make a one time donation towards the operational costs
• Become a partner, by making a monthly commitment towards the operational costs
• Tell you friends and family about this great project, and notify the media!

Visit our donation page to make any of the above donations through a secure server.