Luis Enrique Primary School

At the beginning of December we were approached by one of our cleaners, Rosa, at the British School Quito who has worked for the school for a number of years. She knew that Yvette and I are interested in charity work and told us about the state of her children's school. Her children attend Luis Enrique Raza Bolaños School in the South of Quito. Rosa was particularly concerned about the state of the school toilet block and the classrooms at the school and asked us to come and visit the school.

The school is situated in the south of Quito and is in dire need of funds to provide a healthy, safe and stimulating learning environment to its community of about 600 students and only 18 staff. We were moved by both the poor condition of the school. The main area of concern is the toilet block, which was in an unbelievably bad condition. Out of the 4 toilets in the block, only one actually worked and this was for over 600 children to share!

Over the next few months we will be trying to fund raise to build a new toilet block as well as help do up some of the classrooms that are in desperate need of repair.