With the help of your kind giving Umbrella has been able to provide school shoes for all 84 children who have been reintegrated with their families after they were rescued from very adverse conditions by Umbrella’s rescue team in the past. Most of the children are going to school in rural villages where many live at least half an hour walking distance from school. With the monsoon coming up they have to cross some very slippery mountain terrain, but luckily they don’t have to wear their slippery slippers anymore as they now have proper shoes to comfortably and safely get to their schools. This support helps the children not only to attend school, but more importantly to also stay in their home communities where they are surrounded by and can learn from their own customs, culture and families.
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The 'Shoes for School' for project, sponsored by the Umbrella Foundation Nepal, recently reached their donation target!
Below is a project update prepared by the Umbrella Foundation's Country Director, Caroline Scheffer:
With the help of your kind giving, Umbrella has been able to provide school shoes for all 84 children who have been reintegrated with their families after they were rescued from very adverse conditions by Umbrella’s rescue team in the past. Most of the children are going to school in rural villages, where many live at least half an hour walking distance from school. With the monsoon coming up, they have to cross some very slippery mountain terrain, but luckily they don’t have to wear their slippery slippers anymore as they now have proper shoes to comfortably and safely get to their schools. This support helps the children not only to attend school, but more importantly to also stay in their home communities where they are surrounded by and can learn from their own customs, culture, and families.
Below are pictures of children wearing slippers to school before obtaining proper shoes.
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The next pictures show children wearing proper shoes after the project.
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We have been able to get notebooks for the students to write in and all in all, the after school instructional program has been a huge success!
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These are pictures of the Wisdom School. All of the back walls, roofing and wooden structures are in a bad condition. We are in need of urgent assistance because we would like to improve the infrastructure before the fast approaching rain season comes. Please help us as soon as possible.
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Here's another round of photos from the Chicken Farm--which is running and thriving thanks to all of your support!
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Below is a report prepared by a student who is teaching at the Circle of Peace School this semester. Her name is Pamela Vanis.
[u]Visit to the Chicken Farm[/u]
After school on Monday, we took a visit to David Davenport Chicken Farm. The farm is located about 20miles from Makindye village and was established in September 2011 in conjunction with the Davis Project for Peace and the Bbaale family as a way to provide long-term sustainable funding for Circle of Peace School. Currently there are about 1,400 chickens, which bring in enough income for chicken feed and small day-to-day maintenance, as well as providing 1 egg every 2 weeks to the students at school. This is a great start; and while everyone is extremely optimist about the future of the chicken farm, there is still much work to be done before benefits are seen readily.
Currently, the biggest problem at the farm is drainage. Since the farm is located in a valley of a very steep hill, when it rains there is inevitable flooding, and the far too frequent lose of chickens. During the rainy season, it is not uncommon for the family to be woken up in the middle of the night with a huge mess on their hands; and early Sunday morning (around 3am) was no exception. Although everyone worked quickly to clean, reorganize, and take care of the mess, many chickens didn’t make it, thus loosing income to something that should have otherwise been preventable.
So what’s next? After recognizing the issues at hand, and realizing that it’s not acceptable to loose revenue so easily, the family has decided that a drainage system is an essential next step in order to grow and proceed further with the many incredible projects planned for the future of Circle of Peace School.
It has been estimated that a proper drainage and gutter system will take 3-4 weeks to install (with the help of outside contractors) and will cost around $939.28.
The entire Bbaale family is extremely hopeful that with the completion of this project, an inevitable snowball effect of progress will ensue for the students, families, and entire Circle of Peace School community.
Thank you all very very much for restoring hope and life. With your prayers and support the Wisdom School has been able to make enormous strides. The Wisdom School and its parents are very grateful and appreciative. Thank you all once again, we wish you all a Happy Easter.