By Spiwe Chakawa | Project Leader
We have had a good start in 2015, simply because of your historical and usual support! The good news this time around are that we reintegrated ten more children into formal schools and the grade seven results for our beneficiaries reintegrated in 2013 and early 2014 are just amazing!
Chiedza in the past five years has reintegrated 90 children into formal schools and in January 2015, ten (five boys and five girls) more children aged between 12 and 17 years were reintegrated into the formal system. They are now in grade five and six at Gwinyai primary school here in Harare. This brought the number of children integrated into formal schools to 100 in five years. Through the resources that you donated to Chiedza, we were able to buy them uniforms, pay school fees and buy them stationery. On the program we still have the other 90 children and it means 10 more children out of school will be enrolled this year to have their chance to education.
In a related development, having reintegrated 54 children between 2013 and 2014, 5 of the reintegrated children wrote their grade seven public exams (these mark the completion of the primary school syllabus in Zimbabwe) in November last year and passed very well. One of the children, Doctor* has seven (7) units and the other four are between 10 and 16 units and have since been transitioned into the local secondary schools. These are considered good passes in Zimbabwe because they are between the recommended 4 to 18 units; the lowest score is 36 units.
The management at Chiedza, the three facilitators, the caregivers of these children and the children themselves, both the newly reintegrated and those who passed grade 7 exams were very thrilled by these two developments which took place in December 2014 and January 2015. Everyone is in a jubilant mood!
We are always grateful for your support. Kindly continue to donate to enrol new children and maintain children in school. We use your valuable funds to buy uniforms, books, school fees, buy furniture and food for these children. You can like our facebook page for more information: Chiedza Child Care Center. Visit our website on www.chiedzachild.com
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