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Spring is approaching

September 2010. Winter is drawing to an end but there has been no rain for 3 months. The land is very dry. 0. Spring is approaching. January saw the start of the new school year where over 70 students enrolled. Some don't come because they don’t have shoes to wear.

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Spring is approaching

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  1. September 2010. Winter is drawing to an end but there has been no rain for 3 months. The land is very dry. 0

  2. Spring is approaching

  3. January saw the start of the new school year where over 70 students enrolled. Some don't come because they don’t have shoes to wear.

  4. The bishop arrived in the summer to carry out confirmation classes.

  5. The school has been keen to introduce school dinners. One parent has been cooking at home and bringing it to school. There are plans in place to build a kitchen.

  6. With some money left over from the Harvest donations from our schools last year they bought this cauldron for making school dinners.

  7. The gravel to build the new kitchen arrived last week!

  8. School dinners – cabbage grown by the students. An egg from the profits of snacks sold at break time. The school is keen to increase the amount of protein children have in their meals.

  9. The food is simple, but nourishing, consisting of maize meal and cabbage on some days and thick soup and a large hunk of bread on others.  It is good to see them eating:  so many of the students, particularly the boys, are permanently hungry.

  10. New staff toilets with all the mod cons!

  11. And new student toilets. Remember the old ones….? (just at the back of the picture)

  12. Rats! They enjoyed chewing this rubber ball in the school

  13. Agriculture – an important curriculum subject in Ha Fusi

  14. New school gates – hung by the boys

  15. The finished product

  16. Parents’ Evenings – one parent arrived by tractor!

  17. Gardening tools supplied by a primary school in Nottingham Gardening tools

  18. Every child has a small plot to cultivate

  19. The students grow their own Maize

  20. A recent school trip to find some paintings on the nearby rocks.

  21. The paintings were made by the San bushmen who inhabited the area until a few hundred years ago.

  22. The old and the new!

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