Our most recent visit to Damside was very successful! We have the opportunity to spend 2 days at the school meeting the students and seeing the progress on the buildings.
Thus far, Damside has dormitories and 2 temporary classrooms up for the students. Of the 250 students that were at the school, they have located close to 30 students who are attending the school. The demolition of the school and parts of the slum left many of the Damside families homeless causing them to move away from the area. Peter, the school’s principal, is constantly taking calls or connecting with the Damside families to ensure they are settled and in a new school or making arrangements to bring them to the new school location.
Progress is being made on the permanent classrooms with 5 of the 10 classrooms almost complete. All that is left is roofing, doors, and windows. One these classrooms are complete, Damside can convert the temporary classrooms into more dormitories for the students.
While we at Damisde, we purchased some bunk beds for the students as they only had mattresses on the floor at that time. We also purchased some food to supplement the school’s feeding program. Before we left we planted some fruit trees for the students to care for and hopefully get a regular supply of fruit from soon.
So much progress has been made to rebuild Damside but we still have a long way to go. Our next major steps are completing the 5 classrooms and administration building. The estimated cost remaining to do that would be $8,800 USD.
Thank you so much for your support in making this possible and as always if you would like to donate to this cause please click here.
