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In Africa we support a radio programme and a primary school in Kampala, Uganda, and a feeding programme for a primary school in Kisumu, Kenya.
Grand Opening August 2005 of the New Rock Foundation Primary School Kampala
Summer 2003 - work begins
Members of the church visit projects regularly to ensure that the money they raise is being used as intended and that all money goes directly to the projects as they do not take out administration costs.
The start of a 20 mile sponsored walk in June 2005 to raise money for our trip to Uganda in August to help paint The New Rock Foundation School in Kabowa - a poor suburb of Kampala.
We have been helping to build the school since the beginning of 2002, when it was a simple wood and tin structure with about 90 pupils. The school now has 2 large brick buildings - a hall with dividers into 4 classrooms, and the new block of 3 large classrooms, which have also been subdivided so that the school can provide education from nursery (aged 4) through to Primary 7 (about 12 years old).
The school now has 250 pupils. The last phase (the project for 2006) is to build a second storey on the new block. This will give some larger teaching classrooms and the space to provide a library and a staffroom.
