Colobus Trust

Category: Education | Date: Feb 21 2007 | By: admin

This morning, together with Shelly Waterland, a previous manager who is currently working for Born Free Foundation in the UK, we visited Ngo’nzini primary school. The aim of the visit was to check on the school’s progress and to inform them that some grants that they had applied for, soap processing (Aloe vera), will be sent next week.

Some BFF members who had earlier visited the school had agreed to sponsor secondary education for two students from this school. Shelly was also supposed to talk to the head teacher about this and if possible identify the students.

We had a warm welcome from both teachers and the very excited students. The meeting was conducted in the main staff room and all the teachers were grateful for the funding and hoped to continue working with BFF. After some refreshments, three boys took us on a tour of their nature trail, (where we also had a chance to watch elephants in the nearby Mwaluganje community sanctuary) followed by singing and dancing at the school compound. Some kids pulled us to join in with the traditional dance, and it was great fun which we all enjoyed.

By Hamisi Pakiah
Marketing and Education.