Twenty-four pupils and two staff from Acklam Grange School spent three weeks touring Kenya and Tanzania, on an overland camping expedition, and the main focus of the visit was to complete the Lesiraa Project - a project undertaken by Acklam Grange School that involved building and furnishing four classrooms at Lesiraa School, Tanzania, and providing the school with the resources that they needed to cater for the educational and physical needs of their pupils.
Having spent time at Lesiraa School, and having personally seen the project through to completion, the pupils from Acklam Grange School literally stumbled across three other projects that they felt compelled to take on board, and they decided to cover all three projects under the umbrella term of the 'Meserani Project'.
Meserani School is a primary school in the Meserani District of Arusha Tanzania.
The school is desperately in need of more classrooms and educational and sporting resources.
Our objective is to build and furnish at least two new classrooms, and provide the staff with the resources that they need to provide a decent education.
Building work is expected to start in January 2008.
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Due to the success of the Lesiraa Project, 97% of their Std VII pupils qualified to go to secondary school in 2007. However, because pupils have to pay for their secondary education, this means that many of the Lesiraa pupils who should be going to secondary school will not be able to afford to go, (nationally, only 5% of children in Tanzania go through their secondary education).
Our objective is to set up a Trust Fund for Lesiraa School and Meserani School, and the staff of the two schools will be able to select which pupils are most worthy to receive a grant to pay for their secondary education.
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The biggest slum in Africa is the Kibera Slum, in Nairobi, Kenya, (currently, there are estimated to be between one and two million people living in the Kibera Slum).
St. Secilia Academy School provides an education for some of the pupils who live in this slum.
The school is in desperate need of resources.
Our objective is to provide educational resources and sporting equipment to help the staff provide a decent education for the pupils.
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~ Life expectancy is 47.9 years, and falling.
~ Nearly half of children do not attend primary school.
~ 95% of school age pupils do not go through secondary education.
~ Most schools are in a terrible condition with earth floors, breeze block walls, no shutters or doors and decrepit desks.
~ Average annual salary is $250 (£2.40 a week)
~ A third of the population live below the U.N.’s dollar-a-day poverty line.
~ More than half of the population do not have access to safe water, or access to adequate sanitation.
~ One in seven children die before the age of five.
~ 38% of children under five years of age suffer from stunted growth due to poor nutrition.