Thanks for your support so far!!! 17 children sponsored for education!!

Thank you for your support so far.
We have 17 children out of the 60 sponsored for Education for a year (2011) so far.  We also have enough money to feed 50 children for a month (2 meals a day for 5 days a week).

WHAT YOUR DONATIONS CAN DO

$5

• Juice for 60 children 2 times a week
• 20 rolls of toilet paper
• water for a week
• little girls uniforms
• notebooks for one child attending primary school per term
• enough pineapple to feed the children twice in a week
• bananas for a day for the nursery school children
• Pay Sulli's salary for the month (cleaning and helping feed and supervise the children)
• pay Dan's momma her salary for a month (washes all the dishes twice a day) other chores as well
• pay for 2 children's visits to the hospital
• 2 slates - we need at least 12 more plus the chalk
• sweet potatoes for a special meal
• gnuts for a meal
• soap for 3 families for a month
• 10 brooms (each child going to primary school or senior school needs 4)
• Cassava for a special meal (a root vegetable the people love but it's a treat)
• sweater for a little girl or boy - yes they get cold
• meat for a special meal (we haven't had any meat for any of our meals for the children)

$20

• Mosquito nets for 2
• feed 2 children breakfast and lunch for a month (5 days a week)
• sack of sugar or rice or beans or flour - good for 3 weeks of food
• charcoal for 1 1/2 weeks for cooking breakfast and lunch
• 2 reams of paper
• some sports equipment
• transport - to bring children to the hospital to be checked out
• table (desk) for the children to write on or do activities on
• shoes for a younger child

$50

• 2 mattresses for 2 children to sleep on
• electricity installed
• email for a month and a half ($30 a month)
• one term of preschool or nursery school per child ($150 - year) - we have 52 children on our register but only 36 of the 4 - 7 year olds are in school.  The 2 and 3 year olds need a preschool.
• one teacher's salary for a month
• one cook and 2 helpers for a month

$100

• small swing set
• trikes for nursery school
• some educational supplies - lego, blocks, paint and paper
• metal bunk bed

$120

• food for 1 year for a child - 2 meals a day 5 days a week during the school year.

$150

• preschool and nursery school fees for one year - we have 36 nursery school children and 16 preschool children

$200

• 1 year fees for a primary school student (we have 8 registered but need to enroll 2 more)

$250

• 1 year fees for a senior student S-1 to S-3 (currently we only have 1)

$300

• 1 year fees for a senior student S-4 to S-6 (currently we only have one)  Our female!!!

$500

• cookhouse - We are currently using someones but it needs repair.  We need to build our own.
• Kindergarten supplies - there is nothing

$1000

• per acre of land but we need at least 2 acres
• preschool classroom of brick - large
• each of the 2 nursery school classrooms
• Educational supplies

With more money we can build our own 3 classrooms on land with a playground.  Right now there is a road out front with the sugar cane tractors going by.  A real hazard for the children.  We need to find another location for our Nursery school.