Action plan for 2008:
After receiving several quotations it seems that we need about another N$200 000.00 to be able to finish the building and renovating for proper classrooms and activity areas. We still want to build new staff quarters and renovate the old staff house as it still seems the most affordable and effective way to do it.
The minute we have these finances sorted we will start building. At the moment we have N$210 000.00 available. The main expense for the immediate future would be salary and running cost like food, cleaning material, etc. Finishing the building project costs around N$400 – 450 000.00. About N$150 000.00 more than our original sums last year. It seems the most expensive part is getting building material here which amounted to around N$13 000.00 per trip of which we need around 4 trips.
We have also ordered benches and tables for the children that will arrive within the next month. Our current benches has helped us so far but unfortunately they are rather uncomfortable and impractical. The kids are also in desperate needs of shoes, especially underwear!, shorts and blankets which we will purchase over the next month.
Sponsors for kids wanted
We would also like to further the work here by helping the children in day care during the year of 2008 to find placing in surrounding schools for the next calendar year and help assure they can adapt in these schools. We would also like to find donators to sponsor these children’s individual school, clothing, food and hostel fees which we have worked out to around N$2000.00 per child. This includes year fees for both school and hostel, 2 full uniforms, a blanket and pillow, suitcase and 2 informal wear sets of clothes and a food parcel on returning to school every semester.
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Here you can see the first school kids outfitted by Harnas. Up to now we could find six sponsors from Austria. Thank you very much! |
Still there are many more children who would be happy to be supported like e.g. Frans, Jakob, Kao or Maria! If you think that these children deserve a better start to life it would be great if you could sponsor them. With only 200 Euro for one year (not even 0,55 Euro a day!) you enable them to have access to further education. If you are interested please contact Astrid Behrendt.
These triplet girls are already in school but need urgently support from a sponsor. |
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