New school building completed!

I am happy to pass on the news that the new, three-classroom school building has now been completed, after about seven months, thanks to the financial support of our Dutch donors.

For some time we had been asked by the community to extend our school from ‘basic’ to ‘high school’, by the addition of grades 10, 11 and 12, as there is no provision for this level in our area. To do this we also needed to provide facilities for laboratory lessons for science classes, which are to be achieved by shared space with the electronics school.

Thank you to Jan and Truus Veldkamp, who are visiting Makeni at the moment, for these pictures!

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Welding project

Thanks to donations from Saanich community, security at the orphanage was improved in June. Exterior grill doors have been fitted on several buildings.

Here are before and after pictures!

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Our new St Nicholas head

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Having bid farwell to Ambuya Judy Passmore, we welcome Mrs Irene Chinyama as the new mother in charge of St Nicholas Orphanage Village. 

Mrs Chinyama holds an advanced certificate in Social Development and is also studying for a diploma with Mulungushi University.

Here you can see her in the grounds of the orphanage village .

Here also is a recent picture of some of the orphanage staff and children.

We wish Mrs Chinyama all the best as she continues to settle in to her important role at St Nicholas Village!

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Football matches…

During my visit I have been watching the children playing football on our dusty football pitch. Games go on until the sun sets and are contested with great enthusiasm…

I took this picture of some of the orphanage children a few nights ago to share with you.

Hope you enjoy it!

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