By Jacqueline Audige | CEO / Founder
We ended the day yesterday in spendor. Our goal for the day was to raise $3,000 during the GlobalGiving Matching. Your response far exceeded our expectations and we went over and beyond. We doubled the targeted $3,000 and raised $6,610, bringing the amount raised up-to-date to $15,054.27.
I am waking up this morning with the smile that you put on my face on May 13th 2015. The Aumazo Board and I are very grateful to you for making it our Matching Day success story.
The funds raised will allow us to build the kilometer-long track from Bankondji village to the school site to provide year round access by five ton truck. At present, the access road to the school disintegrates into a sea of mud during the long local rainy season and becomes impassable to all automobiles and trucks.
The average rainfall in the region of Bafang is slightly more than 90 inches a year. About 9/10ths of this falls between April and October, and 64 percent of annual rainfall occurs in almost daily torrential downpours from July through October. This turns the unimproved laterite track linking Bankondji village with the CoReTech (College Regional Technique) Kamarie School site into a sea of mud. The one-kilometer long (0.62 mile) track cuts across an intermittent stream, which becomes a torrent with the rain. It is impossible to get a truck hauling blocks and construction supplies for the school up the track in the high rainy season. Construction of the school facilities is thus impassible during July-October and access is blocked periodically for shorter periods during the early rains.
Aumazo will work with a Travaux Publiques contractor and the community to develop and implement a road maintenance program for the school access road. We hope to start the work in June 2015, so that school construction can proceed during the 2015 rainy season.
Improving the track to all weather status is critical for completing sufficient classroom and dormitory capacity to welcome the first class of 50 students for the academic year beginning in September 2017. Once the school is built and equipped, the road will facilitate access of students, teachers and the community members to the village, town and links to the outside world.
We will keep you informed on the progress of the road construction.
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