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April 2019

Welcome to this April edition of SSP News. Despite the King renaming Swaziland as eSwatini, the SSP trustees decided to keep the original name for this charity, but to add the words - working in eSwatini - after the charity name.

Our Chairman, Keith Fossey, was in eSwatini in February. In this issue, he reports on some of the projects SSP is involved with. The length of this edition shows just how much is going on!
Projects
 
The builders at Salakutjelwa have finished the toilets and work has started on building the classroom now that community members have dug the foundations. See photo.

Working with partner charity Khwakhe Indvodva, renovations have been taking place at the Prince Simon Primary School. See photo.

While in eSwatini, Keith learned from Banjwayini, the head teacher at St Bernard’s School, that she had not been able to feed children for some months because the brickwork supporting the iron cooking pots had disintegrated. Working with Ton Vriend, one of the SSP team in eSwatini, the necessary material was ordered and Keith gave the head teacher some SSP money to pay for the labour. The work is finished and now children are being fed. See photo.

Also at St Bernard’s, Keith gave the school a number of small solar lights. Many children live in places where there is no electricity and where families might share one candle or kerosene lamp. It gets dark early evening all year round so after getting home and doing their chores, many older children struggle to do their homework. This trial will tell SSP whether we should invest in more solar lights. See photo.
Do you belong to a group or know a school that would like a speaker to talk about Swaziland and the work of SSP? If so please email the charity at 
contact@swazilandschoolsprojects.org
Keith visited a remote community at Dumbve to see Zandile Gwembu who runs the pre-school. Readers may recall that Zandile had left school at 13 and had several children. She was voluntarily running the pre-school and was thrilled when SSP asked her if she would like to go to college to undertake a 12 month pre-school teachers course in Manzini. The benefits are obvious. The nearby primary school states that the children get a head start when they arrive because of the excellent pre-school. See photo.
Working with the Anglican Diocese, SSP has arranged to undertake urgent repairs to a classroom at Mpandesane Primary School. There was a hole in the roof so when it rained the children were sent home. In addition, termites had infested the wooden doors and the concrete floor had disintegrated so couldn’t be swept. The work is underway, and the photos show the roof, before and after.
Finally, Keith met with Phindile Ndabandaba, Charles Gilbert and Angus McLeod from the Swaziland Charitable Trust who took over the administration of the bursary scheme following Father Jack Dobson’s death. All is going well and the next edition of SSP News will feature a bursary scheme update.
Thank you to everyone who supported our fabulous auction in early April. Particular thanks this month to the Rotary Club of Bedford for their grant and to St Andrew’s Church, Bedford for passing to SSP 50% of their Christmas collections. 
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