Financial year April 2016 - March 2017

• Another new block completed - library for pupils with good quality shelving and tables plus storeroom, Head Teacher's office with storeroom, teachers' office with wooden cupboards for nearly all 32 teachers.

• Water harvesting system - two 5,000 litre tanks installed. Maintenance of the roof gutter system

• Brick sealant of new classroom block to stop weather erosion of bricks

• Educational items each term and painting of chalkboards

• Some internal renovation of teachers' houses

• Roof guard to deter rust for the two new blocks

• Solar lamps for Standard 8 pupils to study at home - it gets dark around 18.00 hours all year.

• Solar system for Head Teacher house so he can work in the evenings.

Financial year April 2015 - March 2016

• Building of a new two-classroom block

• Roofguard for classroom roofs & other buildings

• More toilets cubicles - 5 girls', 3 boys'.

• Funds for educational items each term

• Spectacles for teachers with vision problems

• Large cupboards in 10 classrooms for textbooks

• Extra money to buy more textbooks and maths sets

• Benches for pupils, tables for teachers in classrooms

• Termite treatment all classrooms

• Another 7 bicycles for additional teachers

Financial year April 2014 - March 2015

• Four cubicle toilet block for 24 lady teachers

• Brickwork pointing - mud mortar replaced with cement - probably saved them from collapsing in January 2015 cyclone.

• Rust guard teacher house roofs.

• Repairs to exposed foundations, ground gulleys to drain torrents away from school buildings.

Sport is very important in attracting children into school (children do not have balls or play things).

• Metal football & netball posts (termites can't eat)and nets.

• More donated football strips "went down a storm". Netball uniforms made by a local tailor delighted the girls.

• Other items funded:- Educational items each term, school signposts, two lockable office desks, desks, another 100 chairs, large metal lockable cabinet.

The teachers are hard working - improvement in exam results. Most teachers live 5-6 Km away, walking to school in heat and in the rains, carrying school items - insufficient secure storage there. About £2,000 bought 28 bicycles with baskets (Beebikes, Blantyre). For teachers living at the school, there are no facilities, so a bicycle helps in daily survival. The teachers were absolutely thrilled.

Financial year April 2013 - March 2014

• 10 classrooms, internal renovation (other two classrooms renovated by volunteers for another charity.)

• 10 girls' and 5 boys' toilets - previous facilities grossly inadequate for 1500 pupils. Urinal blocks also completed.

• Classroom roofs - rustguard, painting. Flashing beneath classroom roofs to reduce wind lifting off roofing.

• Teachers' houses - derelict kitchens & bathrooms & toilets replaced, teacher house roofs - replacement of rotten timber support. Repairs to exposed foundations of teachers' houses & gulleys for water drainage kept these buildings from collapsing.

NOTE: Houses are owned by the school, not by teachers who pay rent. Basic teacher's salary is about £50 a month; goods are expensive and basic survival is not easy. Teachers do not have spare funds to spend on a rented house.

Financial year April 2012 - March 2013

• Roof timbers in 5 classrooms replaced (wood rotten due to termites). Roof can fall in on children or be blown off in wind making class unuseable. Termite treatment of buildings.

• February 2013, 3 classroom roofs blown off (none had the new timbers). In rainy season, classes outside are a problem so this was urgent.

• Another 60 two seater desks (local carpenter) and 120 chairs purchased to the joy of senior students.

Between December 2010 and March 2012

We managed and paid about £8,500 for:-

• Classroom roofsheet, blown off by wind, replaced

• Derelict toilets for pupils and staff renovated

• Educational materials: jotters, pens, textbooks

• 50 chairs - not even the teachers had any

• 60 x 2 seater desks (local carpenter) for Std 8 pupils - on classroom floor for 7+ years and sitting school leaving exam, June 2012

• Termite treatment - mounds coming through classroom floors and walls

• Doors, protectors + locks for all classrooms & offices - previously they had no doors