By Mabwe Lucien | Project Leader
The health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect our country. The second wave of contamination manifested itself last December and was the cause of the closure of all schools in the country from December 2020 until the end of February 2021.
Currently, the statistics are stable: there are 27,794 cases, 25,355 recoveries and 726 deaths; our province (South Kivu) is one of the most affected in the country.
The borders with our close neighbors (Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania) remain closed, which greatly reduces the traffic of our boat on Lake Tanganyika. It can only sail on the Congolese coast. This significantly reduces our revenue.
As we cannot fully assume the barrier measures for our students (hand washing with soaps, wearing masks and the required distancing), our School, Glenn Paige Nonkilling School, remains closed for this school year following the consequences of this pandemic; moreover, the school year is already drawing to a close.
Despite the harmful consequences of this pandemic, our donors continued to honor us with their beneficent and generous donations, which allowed us to collect important construction materials (bricks, reinforcing steel, cement, planks, gravel and stones). Three masons are at work, at the moment, to complete the edifice.
We sincerely thank our various donors around the world for their unwavering support, may God protect and bless them.
Happy Easter !
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