AFRICAN ADVENTURE
 Over a period of five years CWUHA has provided funds in order to build three classrooms in the grounds of a maize farm in the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Moshi Tanzania. The school is run by Mr. Massawe, the African farmer, who is also a qualified teacher, his wife and any volunteers who are prepared to give up their time to help teach poor village children. Up to 120 children each day now receive education, previously denied to them.
In 2011 CWUHA provided the funds so that electricity could be installed on the site. This has enabled Mr. Massawe to offer lessons late into the evening for older children who have to work during the day to help support their families. Lessons are also given to the village parents if requested. The electricity has increased the profile of the school within the community.
Over the Xmas 2011 and New Year period Alex Pearson, CWUHA Trustee, and Roger Jones, former Trustee visited the school, at their own expense. They were provided with funds to purchase exercise books in English and Swahili, various types of writing materials, chalks, erasers plus a cooking pot, cooking oil, sugar and salt. Mrs Massawe attempts to feed all the children with one meal of maize per day. They recently bought 200 laying chickens to try and supplement this diet with one or two eggs per week per child. Chicken feed was also purchased. The remaining funds would pay the school’s electricity bill for six months.
Mr. Massawe’s greatest need is for English speaking teaching assistants. These assistants would check the children’s work, read to them and generally interact with the pupils giving them the chance to practice their written and spoken English language. CWUHA will be looking for volunteers to fill these roles. CWUHA will organise flights, accommodation, time teaching and contacts in country for safaris and mountain climbs. CWUHA cannot provide any funding.
This project will be completely funded by the individuals who volunteer.
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For more information on the work carried out by the CWUHA volunteers please visit www.cwuha.org
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Our return visit to Kilima Hewa
School was as valuable and inspirational as on our previous outing
there in 2008. Education and learning were still occurring and
there had been an extension of the school, in the form of a third
classroom, funded once again by CWUHA. This has enabled many more
pupils to attend this little gem of a local community institution.
We arranged a meeting with Mr & Mrs Massawe, who are the farm
owners that run the school. They came to our hotel in Moshi, a
small city in the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro in the north east of
Tanzania. They breakfasted with us on our first morning in
Tanzania and discussed their immediate needs at the school and how
we could best add value with the limited amount of funding that we
had made available, thanks to my branch of the GMB in South Wales,
the South Wales Branch of the CWU and CWUHA, about £600 in
total. We also discussed the medium to long term aspirations
of this school project and where possible funding may be requested
in the future.
