End of the tourist season! Big thanks to everyone!

Well, the end of another tourist season and what a season it has been. We have had many visitors to our projects, sponsors visiting their sponsored students, work progressing on our projects, it has been a very busy 6 months. Thank you so much to everyone who has taken time out of their holidays and spent a day with us. Thank you also for all your lovely donations for the schools and the clinic in Basori. It certainly makes a big difference to the charity as anything donated means we do not have to buy it from charity funds. We have also had some very generous cash donations and fundraising going on when visitors have returned to the UK.

Basori Nursery has been a very popular choice of schools to visit and Basori village has welcomed us each time with open arms. They certainly know how to welcome visitors. I have never organised any of the welcome parties, the village have organised it all themselves and seem to enjoy as much as the visitors and I do. We go later in the morning so as not to disrupt the school too much, the children get more than 3 hours of teaching before we arrive. We have built the new toilets at the school this year thanks to some generous donors and our next project is to fence the school. This is a huge project as the area is 60 meters by 100 meters and we want to build in concrete blocks as this will be long lasting. A rough estimation of the cost is in the region of £7000. Definitely needed though to prevent the animals coming in to the school grounds and leaving their mark all over the place as well as preventing the children "escaping" during the morning and crossing the main road very close to the school.

We are really looking forward to the prize giving day in July as I have been saving some of the "goodies" that have been donated by visitors and every child will receive a small gift with those that have done well getting the star prizes!

News on the Arabic School to follow shortly, watch this space!