School for 600 children victim of war in DR Congo

The new school year 2016-2017 took place there two weeks ago at Glenn Paige Nonkilling School / Kazimia. It’s another year of hard work and success in a political and security context undecided in the country and particularly in our region where armed groups are active.

The school welcomed 52 new students  and postponed the opening of the new class ( 6^th form) for next year. The teaching staff has remained stable. The two-week stay of Mleci coordinator  ( Project Leader) at the school has an overall evaluation of activities on the following points : administrative organization, general education courses and  nonkilling course, financial situation (profitability of the boat), evolution in pupil enrollment, contribution of the local community ,teachers stability and construction of new buildings.

 The results were deemed satisfactory.

As regards construction, it now begins after the storage period of buildings materials. The local community is actively involved in this activity for the school to move forward and that through it many people can become aware of the need for peace.

This, joins the thought of on officer in Congolese army in charge of security in the region who said “kuwa na shule lenye  linafundisha amani ni muzuri sana. Sote tunaweza kuleta amani katika maeneo  yetu “

This sentence in Kiswahili means "To have a school join us by teaching  nonkilling  and maintaining peace is excellent. Together we can restore peace in the region ".

Dear beloved, with your continued support, this project will achieve its objectives, namely to study the children victims of war  in good conditions.

Thank you our nonkilling friends for suggestions to improve our work.

Best wishes.

Links:

• our website
• Mabwe work

We arrive at the Glenn Paige Nonkilling School at the end of the school year 2015 - 2016. Tomorrow is the proclamation and the official closing!

The local community will gather at the school. There will be a warm ambiance : shouting, crying, congratulations, gifts, cheers and howls of disapproval !

In the closing speech, the Headmaster will announce the opening of the final year of primary school (form 6) for the next school year. This is in line with the request of local authorities and  pupils’ parents . Then ,our pupils will  have the full program of nonkilling  courses.

With anticipation, we can say that this school year was positive: classes went well, the security situation was quiet, few cases of dropouts and desertions and all current programs have been completed.

As for the construction of new buildings, we are  bringing from  Uvira (250 km of the School) bricks, concrete iron  and cement ) by boat to complete the elevation of the walls. The latest hardware will arrive at the school early July.  We planned  to purchase, transport and store the equipment in order to raise the walls in the months of July, August and September 2016 (dry season) for two reasons: to avoid incessant ruptures of stock materials under construction  and avoid disruption of work during the rainy season.

Also, parents of pupils have had enough time to stock up on food to feed themason during construction. For it is the parents who prepare the meal and serve as assistant masons. One of the moms talk "Kazi za shamba zimekwisha, hiyi kipwa tutaanza shinda tunasaidia ku kazi za masomo  ya watoto wetu"   this Kiswahili sentence mean “field work is completed and  this dry season, we will help to build the school of our children” . We hope to start roofing work in October, 2016.

Much thanks to our nonkilling friends for  getting to this step.

We will be happy to receive suggestions for the  good continuation of the work.

Best nonkilling.

Links:

• http://www.mleci.edublogs.org