EHOMBA SCHOOL NEWS
This year the Trust is supporting Mr Zauana, the headmaster of Ehomba School as he advances his studies in South Africa. It is our hope that the school will go to secondary school over the coming years, and Mr Zauana is doing some advance studies that will enhance his ability to administer the school as that happens. The Trust is paying for his tuition fees and his accommodation while he is in South Africa. We believe it is a marvellous investment in the future of the children and the region and are proud of the role that our supporters have played in our being able to make this contribution!
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We have just returned from Namibia and have had a wonderful trip. A very significant proportion of the funds we raised last year have now been invested in the school and every dollar that we have raised has gone into the project and has gone a very long way.
You would all have been highly amused if you could have seen us arriving at Ehomba in the same vehicle that I travelled in on the 2007 Intrepid Travel documentary. We were a group of eight: my darling and ever patient Burton, our daughter Anna and her boyfriend Andrew, our son Ben and his girlfriend Chelsey and our very good friends and fellow Trustee Gary Green and his wife Mary. George, our guide who had travelled with me in 2007, had literally taken the truck apart so he could get a photocopier in. We also took rugby, soccer, netball and volleyballs as well as hula hoops, skipping ropes and many, many reading books of different varieties, laptops and projectors, food and many other treats for the children. Ben had commissioned 5,000 pencils and pens with Ehomba School written on them and you would have thought that we had given them a treasure in offering these children a pencil with their own school identity written on it.
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