 March 14, 2010
I have been here since mid-January and this is always the most exciting time of year. It is when we prepare the children to return to school, meet and register the new children to Connect Africa, have our annual outing with all the children and then get them all off to school by the beginning of February.
I am writing right now as it is a quiet moment as we are preparing for visiting day at MaryHill Primary School. We have 9 children attending this school and today 10 guardians and siblings are traveling to visit the children and review their reports. The transport to this school is very difficult and very dusty. I tried to borrow a car, but was not able to get one. All 10 of us will be carrying school supplies that the children need. We are all excited to go and have been missing the kids.
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To date we have 31 students enrolled in 18 different schools.
Here is the list of supplies we get for the children: 408 small writing books
100 big writing books
Graph books
Art books/art pencils
31 reams of white paper
400 pencils
330 pens
31 rulers
13 geometry sets
13 pocket dictionaries
Uniforms which include-regular uniform, sports wear, socks, sweater, dormitory wear
Black shoes
375 rolls of toilet paper
18 students are in boarding school and they need:
54 bars bathing soap
216 bars washing clothes soap
54 tooth pastes
18 tooth brushes
54 Vaselines
54 shoe polishes
18 shoe brushes
Buckets for bathing
Mattresses
Blankets
Bed sheets
Towels
Storage boxes and padlocks
Plate
Cup
Slippers
Night wear
Sanitary pads
Mosquito nets
90 bags of cookies
90 bottles of juice
180 kilo's of sugar
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