The Health Post is now open. Over 1000 people attended the opening and we all enjoyed being with all the villagers as they celebrated with speeches, dancing and soft drinks.
The Community Centre is now constructed and cost £40,000.
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Football pitch
is levelled and Community Centre garden has been landscaped and planted
with shrubs and grasses.
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One classroom
out of the 3 has 30 desks for 60 children.
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10 Tables
have been made for the Computers and the Sewing Machine area.
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20 benches
for the Meeting Hall have been made to seat 80. (Still 60 more benches
are needed)
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We have bought
35 laying chicken (sponsored by Brenda King)
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We have sown
grass for the cows and maize for the villagers on the farms two fields.
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A water supply pipe has been installed to the centre.
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The capacity of the school will now rise to 400.
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One of our cows has had a bull calf and the farmer says that it is good enough to keep for breeding (photo to follow)
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We now have 4 teachers.
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We have gained about another hectare of land alongside our farm.
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We have linked our charity in the UK with a fundraising company so we can gain donations from about 600 shops,services and superstores when you buy online....this is the link
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/anewbeginningrwanda
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The Health Post Clinic has gained an Otto scope and a Steriliser and the Lab has gained a Centrifuge to go with the Microscope.
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The new Health Post now has left rooms in the Community Centre free so we have transformed them into two more classrooms and an office for the Headmaster.
URGENT
We are in desperate need for the following:
| Item | Qty Needed | Cost |
| 1. Extra Pharmacy Stock | £3,500 |
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| 2. Haemoglobin Machine | £500 |
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| 3.Treated bottles for urine and Stool | 1200 | £25 |
| 4. Tests for Pregnancy | 300 | £75 |
| 5. Emersion Oil | 2 Bottles | £70 |
| 6. Gimsa | 2 Bottles | £60 |
| 7 Typhoid & Syphilis reagents | 6 Bottles | £50 |
| 8. Heater (electrical) | 1 | £25 |
| 9. Metallic Cupboard for Drugs (secure) | 1 | £100 |
| 10. Filing Cabinet, wooden Cupboards | 2 | £340 |
All these items can be second hand as long as they are in good working order.
The school now has 220 pupils and 4 teachers. We expect the numbers to rise to about 400, therefore we have decided to separate the school and Medical Centre 100 metres away, therefore keeping the sick away from the children.
We have had some great luck. We have found a water main under our land and for £180 we have been granted the use of this water without further charges. The water pressure is a little low but we can use this for all the Community Centre and we can sell water to the villagers at 25p for 25 litres. This will give another source of income for the community.
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With the generous donations we have received we have now taken out to the Community Centre a TV and DVD player with a VHS cassette player with dvd`s and cassettes as entertainment and as a teaching aid.
We also have now had installed 2 more 10 cubic metre water harvesting tanks making a total of four. All three classrooms are full of 150 children most of who have uniforms made by the mothers with our sewing machines given to us by "Just Sew". Also the parents have paid for most of the cost of extra benches for the children in the classrooms.
His Excellency the British Ambassador and his Wife, The Minister for the Cabinet, the local MP for Eastern Province, the Eastern Province Governor, the Mayor of Nyagatare District, The Chief of Police, Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the Eastern Province, The Chief Executive of the District and Sector. The sponsors from the UK were Peter Chotai from Kampsons Pharmacies, Bahvesh Radia Sanitation sponsor, Celestin Nyamutamba (Our New Beginning Representative in Rwanda), Justin Gatzinzi (Government co-ordinator for NGO’s), Major Dennis Basabose, General Director for Logistics in the Army, Mayor of Gatzibo, Director General of East African Dairy Project (NGO) and at least 1500 villagers from the local community.
The entertainment
was provided by our own village cultural dancers, who escorted people
from the centre down to the football pitch where the festivities were
taking place and the finale was the performance of the supreme Rwandan
culture dancers Garuk urebe.
All that has to be done is to landscape the area and provide a playground and a football pitch. In addition we need to plough the farm (6 Hectares) and plant the crops which normally harvest twice a year, fit out the school, infirmary, pharmacy, shop with desks, counters, partitions, benches, seats and shelving. Then finally provide all the equipments for running the Centre.
Also we need to equip the farm with 2 Oxen, 3 Cows ,Goats and Chickens with farm implements and this will be in the region of £3,000. So we still have a bout £10,000 to raise.
Hopefully we can raise this by late September/Early October when President Paul Kagame will open the Community Centre and Farm. Our goal will be achieved as we set ourselves a target to establish this centre in under 2 years, and we started fundraising in November 2007 and started building in the early part of 2008.
Photos below show the roof and gutter under construction together with the plastered walls incorporating the blackboards which are raised smoothed plastered areas in each classroom.
When we visit in July this year we will organise the community to landscape the area around the Community Centre with flowerbeds, paths and small parking area. Also the levelling of the surrounding area with a playground for the children and a football pitch.
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