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| Home | How the project came into being. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| In 2002, while the Acklam Grange School Overland Expedition 2004 to Kenya and Tanzania was being planned, the owners of Meserani Snake Park sent images of Lesiraa School to the Deputy Head Teacher of Acklam Grange School. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Two of the classrooms were simply wooden huts, with no windows or doors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Inside the wooden classrooms, even the dividing walls were not serving their purpose. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The blackboards were the only educational resource that the school had. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Because the school only had six benches for 441 pupils, many pupils had to sit on the floor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| There were three classrooms built with stone, but these also had no equipment apart from a blackboard. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Because of the shortage of furniture, even the senior pupils had to sit on the floor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The school had two of these buildings, which meant that there were only four pit latrine toilets for 441 pupils. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| When asked what Lesiraa School needed in order to function properly as a school, the Head Teacher stipulated the following requirements: Six more classrooms Nine more accommodation buildings for staff Fourteen more toilets Two hundred more desks Twenty-nine more benches With this knowledge, Acklam Grange School resolved to visit Lesiraa School during their 2004 Overland Expedition, and take funds with them to buy whatever resources the Head Teacher felt were a priority. Click here to find out what happened during that visit. |
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