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Donation by Munich students

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Line up from Left: Marina Banks, Max Vermeer, Arnor Elvarsson and Fabian Middelmann.

A group of students at the Bavarian International School in Munich, Germany, have kindly donated £125 to CCC.  The students raised this money by participating in a ‘Young Enterprise’ project in which they marketed and sold hooded sweatshirts bearing the ‘BIS’ initials of their school.

Distressed by the suffering of children in DR Congo, the students chose to make a donation in support of our food and education programmes. We are most grateful to these internationally-minded students for making such an effective demonstration of solidarity with our cause.

Some of the students who helped organise the fundraising are shown in this accompanying photo.

Completion of Desks & Classrooms Project

Monday, August 31st, 2009

     Our three year project to improve the learning environment at a primary school in Kinshasa has been successfully completed.  See also our blogs of Aug 7th 2007 (Water Cisterns) and May 15th  2009 (Desks & Classrooms).

Work on the Desks & Classrooms project was undertaken in stages over two years, mainly during the Congolese school holidays so as to avoid disruptions to lessons. By the end of July 2009 we had completed the following work at the school: 

  1. Supply of 200 new pupils’ desks and 15 new teachers’ desk and chairs;
  2. Renovation of 17 dilapidated classrooms. This included relaying & repairing concrete floors; repairing and repainting walls; enlarging and resurfacing blackboards; and relaying a concrete pathway & steps to classrooms.

The generous grant we received in July 2008 from The Anglo American Foundation covered a large part of the cost of this project, the balance being funded by Fern Hill Primary School, Kingston upon Thames, UK.

We wish to express our great thanks to the Anglo American Group Foundation and to everyone involved at Fern Hill Primary School for their fantastic support for this project!

Donation from Anglo American plc

Monday, August 24th, 2009

In our news item dated March 15th 2009 about our Desks & Classroom Improvements Project, we mentioned the generous grant we had received for this project from the Anglo American Group Foundation.  In July this year we were delighted to receive a donation of £2876 from the Foundation’s parent company, Anglo American plc.  This money had been raised through a sale of art to Anglo American’s employees for charitable purposes, and Caring for Congolese Children was chosen as the beneficiary.  This donation will be used to support our food, health and education programmes at the Centre Mère Marie Augustine in Kinshasa.

Desks & Classrooms Project 2007-2009

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Caring for Congolese Children is engaged in a two-year project to improve the learning environment at a Congolese school, Ecole Primaire Cardinal Malula, at Mont N’Gafula, Kinshasa.  The work involves renovating 17 classrooms and providing 200 new children’s desks and 15 teachers’ desks and chairs.  Thanks to a generous grant from Anglo American Group Foundation and the wonderful support of Fern Hill Primary School in Kingston upon Thames, UK, the project is on target to be completed during 2009.

 Desks and classrooms before:

 

  Desks and classrooms after: