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Letters from TEAA-Supported Schools |
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From: St Joseph Centenary near Kampala. Hello Henry, Greetings from all of us at St. Joseph Centenary Secondary School. We hope and pray that the year started well for you and TEAA and that the good Lord blesses your generous hands and kind hearts. On behalf of The Board Of Governors, Parents, Teachers, students of St. Joseph Centenary and on my own behalf, allow me to to say thank you for the generous and wonderful gift of 20 computers that we collected on Friday 15 February 2008. We are all excited about the computers we received and are working on arrangements to enable both teaching staff and students to make the most benefit of them. I will soon send you some pictures of our present computer lab with more computers in. Am sorry I could not mail you earlier because for the last two weeks we have been making preparations and later receiving our new students in S5 (year five), and S1 (year one). Once again allow me to register our gratitude to TEAA for the invaluable gift they have extended to our school. Sincerely yours, Bernadette (Sr.) From: St. Joseph's Ngarenaro, Arusha, Tanzania. Dear Friends, Thanks for the message and your interest in our school. I have a Girls Secondary School catering for the needs of education and all round development of the girls whom we would like to take up leadership in the society to bring change and transformation in society. My students are from estranged and difficult situations, from single parent families, and majority of them are poor, abandoned or orphans. We have lots of needs for the school. In order to do exam in form four level we are in need of many things like LCD projector and Screen, Digital camera,Video camera, DVD deck and so on. At present we give the students short courses so that they can go out and work and get some pocket money during holidays. But the form two students do write the exam and the pass is about 90%. I have a computer teacher to teach the students. If you want to know more about the students and the school we have a web site for you to view http://eol.habari.co.tz/st-joseph.htm. We are really in need of many things. Our school is a boarding school and we have about 400 students in the boarding and we need some blankets, beds and above all money to feed my children. Anyone who has a good heart will have plenty to do and to reach out to the poor and the needy. Thank you and may God bless you. With much love and prayers, Sister Mary Shaija, SND. From St. Joseph's Gunga, Migori, Kenya. Henry, We shall be extending this term's business till 25th [April] to enable us to make up for the time lost earlier on in the term. The teachers are upbeat and working hard. We shall be meeting with the parents on 11th to ask for their support in the coming term and also to brief them of our activities this term. Our government has been quite slow in responding to our needs this term, perhaps because of the problems we have had this year and very little communication has been coming and this has made the running of schools a bit challenging this year. The stories you have read about our IDPs [internally displaced persons] greatly affected the education department here and even our local officer here just reported the other day. After the coming meeting with the parents I will communicate to you the details about our plans for text books. By the way, one of our great challenges as you might have noticed during your last visit is lack of power, we are thinking of solar power project to be able to run a computer for office work that currently depends on typewriters but without a duplicating machine, our activities are pretty slow and expensive. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours, OKUNYA. |