By Mabwe Lucien | Project Leader
The 200 students of our School have been on Christmas holidays since yesterday. Two long weeks of rest after a studious and tumultuous first term.
Important facts that marked this period are:
- The success rate during this quarter is satisfactory: 87%. We hope improvements in the coming quarters.
- The teacher of the 3rd elementary school left us to pursue university studies. We had to recruit a (qualified) teacher to replace him.
- We had to release the children for a week following the diarrheal disease (cholera) that hit our area. 6 of our students were hospitalized and unfortunately 2 succumbed. The entire School actively participated in the funeral ceremonies.
- Given the repetitive cycle of this epidemic in our region and of which we are still victims, we decided to rehabilitate, with the support of the populations, an old abandoned public tap, which is on the site of our school under construction so that our students will drink clean water, not Lake Tanganyika water nearby.
This water well will also help the entire local community of Kazimia and reduce the high mortality rate due to diarrheal diseases. Work has just begun. The director of the school understood the stakes and said "Notre Ecole a déjà perdu plusieurs élèves à cause de cette épidémie. Il est temps que nous ayons de l’eau propre à l’Ecole et que nous contribuons à la bonne santé de notre communauté” this french sentence means « Our school has already lost several students from cholera. It is time for us to have clean water at school and to contribute to the health of our community”.
- Controversies, demonstrations, imprisonments and deadly repressions that accompany the electoral process in our country create various tensions and are sources of insecurity in several regions. Our school keeps the line of apolitical.
- After the storage of materials, the masons are preparing to finalize the concreting of the walls.
Dear friends, we are proud of your actions. Your generous donations are preparing a new world, a nonkilling society, a better future for thousands of children. Dream together of this world and act for it !
To all,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018 !
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