This Saturday we were doing more work at the Escuela General Fiscal Pintag. It is a school in a poor community only 10 mins from the BSQ. An ex-colleague, Yvette and I set up a link with the school in July this year. Between our friends and families and some money raised at school we are paying the nursery teachers salary for 6 months. Last year the nursery was shut down because they could not afford to pay the $150 a month salary! We are also running a programme with the secondary students at the BSQ. They have to complete a certain number of hours of community service, so they are helping with a programme to improve the school at the weekends.
So far Martyn and I and lots of BSQ students have rubbed down and re-painted desks in one of the classrooms, we have provided the school with lots of books that have been donated by parents of the BSQ, we have given the school a number of rugs so that the children can have a reading area, we are in the progress of re-painting the playgroud and have cleaned up the nursery.
Below are some pictures from previous visits to the school. See October post for some more pics.
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