Kevin and Christine visited Shashemene 23rd – 30th January to review progress at the new school since it opened in Sept’09. We now have 287 pupils attending and have plans for future development over coming years, possibly up to 600 maximum.
On this short trip Christine spent time working alongside our newly appointed housemother Ainelem, helping her into her new role in caring for children’s health and wellbeing, including hygiene and care of uniform & appearance. Kevin brought a basic toolkit and worked alongside the school caretaker to carry out some necessary finishing work to classrooms and toilet/shower block as well as some basic shelf construction and furniture repairs
We also had lengthy discussion with our local committee on a range of issues including our plan to build on a kitchen for preparation of meals. At present food is purchased from the local town. In the long term having our own kitchen will reduce future costs and assist towards independent meals provision. We also discussed improving the present dining area for the children which is one of the classrooms.
Bryan Gormley
February 3, 2010 at 9:14 pm
hi there. hope the trip went well – look forward to getting an update.
love the new website, by the way..