Building Classrooms for Zvamaida Primary School

Dear Friend

Projects like ours can become very frustrating at times. Often funding is an ongoing issue, and it can wear you down as there are so many good causes around the world that attract new funding; logistics can be another one, and of course our not always useful friend 'Bureaucracy'!

We came across a potential problem in our endeavours to price the cost of building additional toilets and refurbish the existing ones. This problem related to a new declaration by Government that no more Blair Latrine toilets will be allowed to be built at schools, and that just a toilet water flushing system be allowed. This gave us a problem as we did not know if it would be required to rebuild rather than just refurbish the existing ones, but importantly if we had to have a flushing system what the potential increase in costs would be for the existing ones and the new ones.

It needed a face to face on site meeting with local officials to reach a solution to the problem. In the end it was agreed that the existing toilets were safe, but needed cracks filling properly, cleaned, and painted and that they then would have a fairly long life. On the question of  building new toilets, the authorities were happy enough that just Blair Latrines would suffice. That came as a relief as costs could well have rocketed.

Now we have clarity on this all, we are raising funds to conduct this work as soon as we can finance it.

Thank you for all your previous support, and as you will note from the above more financial help is needed.

Best wishes

Danny