By Wen Hung | Project Leader
Mabhahhu Primary School is located in the hilly mountains of Mbabane in the rural areas. It is surrounded by a few homesteads. There are 120 children in school this year including pre-school kids. Some of them walk over 3 km to school. Most of the children who attend Mabhahhu Primary School either are orphans or live with guardians who are relatives. The school is where the children get their breakfast and lunch. The problem is, they do not have a kitchen – they cook in an unenclosed shack.
“Ever since our school was donated by volunteers from Italy in 2009, we have had a large number of orphans and children who live with guardians. At the beginning of school built, there was no kitchen constructed for school meals cooking, but a shack only. For the past 10 years, we have been struggling to provide meals every day because of the poor condition of kitchen especially in a cold, rainy or windy day. We have applied and received the resource from the Ministry of Education to build a kitchen, however, it only offered E500.00 for each child which will not be enough to build a new kitchen for more than one 100 children. This budget will be allocated as the salaries of the cooks and the maintenance cost of the school kitchen. I'm grateful that TFCF have purchased food for school through the monthly sponsorship, and we would like to have a food storage room in order to secure food from stolen. This project is really important to our school and I am glad to see the kitchen is under construction now! I am looking forward to seeing clean and nutritious food in a hygienic and safe environment on a daily basis. I believe all uncooked food will also be stored safely which won't be stolen anymore. Your donation and support have changed our living tremendously in Eswatini. Thank you very much!”
- Message from the School Principal of Mabhahhu Catholic School
We are building a kitchen now!
I am glad to tell you that we are building the school kitchen now! We started to build a kitchen at Mabhahhu Catholic School on April 23, 2019 and the construction project is estimated to take 3 months to complete based on the preliminary schedule. According to the construction timeline, we have done the excavation and reinforcement of foundation at the first month. Currently, we are going to build the roof of school kitchen soon by the end of this week and the date of construction completion will be July 22, 2019.
Thank you for your trust and support at the beginning of the project launched. I believe that you also agree to give the core needs of school children in Eswatini. We will ensure to build a school kitchen and are going to improve the sanitation environment, preserve food, and keep children healthy through this project. Even resources are limited, we will keep doing the right thing with you. Thank you for your support and let’s bring new hope to needy children together.
With gratitude,
Wen Hung
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