A Big Thankyou

I would like to thank the various people who have contributed to Upendo Junior School:

• Tribal staff for their hardwork at putting together in excess of 15 sets of educational software to be taken over to the school, surprise packages for the teachers and for a digital camera.
  

• The National Science Learning Centre in York for the Science Books, science multi media resources, pens, pencils, posters, etc. for the children.

I am now getting very excited and looking forward to being able to hand over these goodies to the school. My husband and I will be helping out for just over a week with the pc's, training, DIY, etc. and we will attempt to update the blog via mobile phone with some pictures.

Thank you,
Emily Tredoux

This weekend UJS received a generous donation of £500 from a gentleman who wishes to remain annonymous. On behalf of my wife, the teachers and the children, and on my own behalf, I wish to thank him most sincerely for his magnanimous gesture.

We plan to use the money donated towards kickstarting a cyber café.

We will be able to:-

• pay rent for a shop in the local market
• install the computers we received from Stevenson Junior School, Nottingham.
• make desks and chairs for the computer room
• offer printing, photocopying, scanning and laminating services once we finish with the computers.

The advantage of the proposed cybercafe is that we will be able to generate some income for the school as well as use it in teaching the children ICT skills.

The computer room should be up and running by September, when Emily from Tribal visits, we are praying that she will be able to bring along some software for children’s programmes and hopefully train the teachers and myself in how to use the software.

We may not be able to connect to the internet soon as this may be slightly expensive for us at the moment.

Once again I thank you for your contribution and assure you that the seed you have planted will be watered and nurtured so that it benefits as many children as possible, now and in the future.

Thank you.
Masibo Lumala