This weeek we started Read for the Top finals in Ekwanda primary. The children received the books a few months ago and this last week the teacher in charge was transferred! We have two other dedicated teachers who have taken over, so on Tuesday we distributed the T-shirts to an eager class of fifty grade 6 (now grade 7 of course). On Thusday we will do the heats and on Tuesday of next week the finals.Here are some of the students in their new T shirts with their books.
This school has a Special Education unit for mentally handicapped. The building has been condemned as unfit for use, so now the class is in temporary accommodation which will be needed by other classes. We are teaching interlocking brick making to a group of young men in a neighbouring community through a Rotary matching grant. We would very much like to use them to rebuild the special unit, thus rendering a vital service to the Ekwanda school community. We would have to raise some funds to pay the young men for their work. About $1,000 would allow us to do the work for two classrooms. I wonder if a school, a church, a teacher association would be interested in starting off the fund? 
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