 | School Resourcing |
| The New School Year is in and our school is badly in need of new resources. Books, toys, learning tools and equipment are all very useful in providing a good education for our children. As well as this many of the desks, chairs and doors/windows could use painting and repairs. |
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 | Girls Hostel |
| Our current girls hostel is in terrible decay. Being the oldest building on the mission it is now sadly in need of replacement. We hope to be able to construct a low cost new hostel for the 20+ girls that are currently staying in it. The new hostel would help provide security, comfort and of course a "homely feeling" for these children aged 14-18. |
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 | Vocational Training Center |
| The dreams of one day opening a Vocational Training Center on our mission are soon becoming a reality. Currently as it stands outside our school certificate and our mission "Trainee Certificate" our children do not receive any other "qualifications". Our hope is to start up several government recognized vocational training courses to give our children not only a greater understanding of things but also assist them with qualifications for job application in the future. |
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 | School Playground |
| Our school is badly in need of a new playground facility. Our hopes are that we can construct a swing set, a fort, some monkey bars and a climbing frame. This equipment would be used daily by the children of our school and outside of school times would be available to the "Small Boys" of our orphanage. |
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 | New School Building |
| The largest single project ever undertaken by us is the dream to build a new government recognized school to give our children a far better education and ultimately a much better future. The school has potential to support the orphanage through admission fees. Construction has begun and is currently at the foundation stage. As this is such a large project we can only continue work as finance is secured. |
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 | New Guest Room |
| One of the small projects that we have been working on this monsoon is the renovation of an old bathroom in the Big Boys Hostel. It has not been used for the last 10 years and so we have decided to turn it into a small guestroom -suitable for up to 4 guests. We have been having a lot more volunteer workers over the last few months so this should help a lot in providing comfortable accommodation for them. |
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 | Leper Colony |
For over 30 years there has been a colony of people who have lived on a corner of the mission who all suffer from leprosy. These people are outcasts from their society, rejected and left to live the rest of their lives unemployed -generally as beggars. Recently thanks to the help of a volunteer from Australia, we have begun construction on a new housing project for them. At the moment the only thing left to do is fit out the electrical work and finish some painting.
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 | Bathroom Renovations |
| One of the biggest needs at the moment is for better bathrooms. Many have not had any work done on them for decades. Leaky taps, rusty cubicle doors (if any), no paint, cracked cement and bad ventilation lead to some very smelly toilets. There are 8 major bathrooms which we plan to eventually renovate. We have had many groups of volunteers help out with this work. |
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 | Painting and Renovations |
| It is our hope that we will one day be able to get rid of all the dull grey concrete walls by painting them with bright "happy" colours. It is amazing the way a coat of paint can transform a room, make it brighter and hopefully more encouraging to the orphan children living in it. |
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 | New Laundry |
| After over 3 decades of use the old laundry was in need of replacing. Cracked floors, walls and rusty, faulty equipment meant that it would actually be easier to change the entire location of the laundry. With the help of some volunteers and donations we were able to build a new laundry and turn the one into an undercover clothes hanging area (for use in the monsoon). |
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 | Tractor Trailers |
| We were in great need of some repairs to our tractor trailers which are used on the farm. Our old single axel steel trailers have been in use for years (one of them since 1954) and are badly in need of new steel floors and sides. Thanks to volunteer help we made a new trailer and repaired all our other ones, this was all done in our workshop by our staff/workers/volunteers. |
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 | New Office / Administration Building |
| For nearly 2 decades the mission has really needed a new office/administration area. After 2 years of planning; Stage 1 and 2 of this new building have now been constructed. The new building contains the main admin area as well as accommodation and a kitchen. Replacing the old office, the new admin building really is looking great! |
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 | Biogas Tank |
| Cooking for a large family has been a great expense over the years, but one thing that had made it all a whole lot cheaper was our "cow manure powered gas plant" -this system allowed us to have free "natural" gas to cook our food. After many years one of the collection drums needed replacing, thanks to the help of some volunteer workers we were able to do this. |
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 | Boundary Fencing |
| Thanks to the support of GHD Engineering a volunteering work team from Australia came out to the mission and constructed a 2.3km fence around our entire orphanage/farm boundary. This fence will protect our crops from the many wild animals that constantly come into our fields in the dark of the night. |
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 | More Completed Projects |
| If we listed every project we/our volunteers have completed in the last few years this page would go on and on! In this section are a few of the earlier projects that we completed that might be of interest. There are plenty that we have left our though! |
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