| Kenya, Namaondo primary school Namaondo CBM Primary School, Chwele, Western Kenya
 This school is located on the site of the church's compound in Chwele township. About 10 years ago local Christadelphians responded to the needs of refugees from fighting on the nearby Kenya/Uganda border area and opened their meeting hall as a school. There are now 12 classrooms and well over 650 children on the site !
For a number of years the school was supported by private donations from church members in the UK, and then by Exeter church, which continues to this day to pay for the preschool feeding programme.
CMaD has now completed a programme of refurbishment of 10 classrooms at a cost of just under £10,000. The school has been transformed since a trustees' visit in April 2007, with repairs and plastering to the walls and provision of concrete floors to each classroom. Additional latrines have also been provided.
CMaD has also paid for sports equipment and improved water supply this year at a cost of £3,500.
This is the poem written by one of the children, which was performed to CMaD when we visited in November 2008 and delivered in a lovely African chant :
Our school was dusty,
too dusty to be there.
Walls were muddy and dirty
it was hated by dad, my mum too
Our school was full of holes and openings
it showered down dirt, on us were dust,
Dust was come in on our classroom.
Our shorts and dresses were but torn,
Torn from time to time
Because of rough floors and walls
Now floors and walls are smooth and new
Meal A Day was our Meal
We are now well and fine
Thank you Meal A Day
Thanks from Namaondo |
