Rotary and Destiny

Rotary has decided to sponsor Destiny school with another 100.000 Kes. This is great news, but the problem is that what we need most is desks, chairs, black boards and cub boards. Last time we received money only for renovating and/or building, so I hope they will agree to help with what we need this time. It’s actually quite shocking how much a little room costs in the slums, and how few there are to buy. We usually pay around 60.000 for a room, and then we need money for renovations. The rooms have corrugated iron walls (if you buy one with brick walls it’s over 100.000) and no flooring. We sometimes change the inner walls, if we have the adjacent room and always have to make cement floors. It is also good to have bigger rooms, so a whole class can fit. The rooms we buy are about 15 square meters. Often we have to open up some windows, so it will be brighter in the room, and sometimes we get electricity. When it rains it is always flooding in the rooms, so that is why the cement floor are important. Once we had a room in a slope and it was useless when it was wet and raining. You could not even put a desk there. We cemented the floor in different levels and it became really nice.

I also have to put a presentation together for Rotary with images “before and after” and this is harder than it seems. It is hard to capture the progress in images because everything looks quite bad (both before and after). I’m hoping that my family friend in Sweden, who is presenting it for Rotary can make a good presentation from what I sent her!