As part of our effort to employ and help the local people we recently visited a school near Nha Trang (Truong Tieu Hoc Lien Sang) that we we informed about through a Monk that we do charity work with.
The school has 250 students and is in a very poor farming area. The children are often left to fend for themselves in the mornings as when they wake up their parents have usually already gone to work. The Director of the school has done a lot of great work and implemented some great projects over the 2 years he has been their. One of which is providing lunch for the children so that they do not need to walk all the way home and then often not return in the afternoon. Now the children eat lunch and have a sleep in their class room and then continue on class in the afternoon. This means they get to eat a good meal as well as learn a lot more.
There is still much work needed to be done, but with limited funds it is difficult for the director and teachers to do everything they want to do.
One of the main problems we saw while we were there is the lack of toilets for the teachers and students. The toilet block that is there is 20 years old and is in a very very bad state.
So we have donated some money to get the project stated to build new toilets for the children. We will be back there in December to see how work is progressing and to donate some more money to get the project finished.
The local people will provide the labor, we just need to buy the material. We have donated $300.00 so far and expect to need $2000.00 to finish the project to a high standard.
In lieu of Xmas Pressie for Laurie & Sonya Nolan