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| history and development: |
| The original school in Gouria was very run down and the non-qualified teachers were doing their best to help the children study with up to 100 in a class. However, four years ago a group of schools in Spain (Cambridge House, the British School, Alzira; Hastings School, Madrid; and Newton College, Elche) decided to finance the construction and running costs of a new school for the village children. The school is called Malima, a Kapsiki word meaning ‘protector’, and the name of the mountain on which the school is built. When the school was inaugurated in the July 2000 fifty children were enrolled in one class but it soon became clear that there were many waiting outside the room for a chance at education so we started another group and the groups attended in two shifts. Now, those first children are going into Year 5. The European Union has financed two more rooms. We employ 6 teachers and have almost 200 children who attend school in still two shifts so our school building is in constant use. We have started a pre-school group to encourage the habit of attending school among young children, and organised adult literacy for those for whom school has arrived too late. We have supported another local school with the building and furnishing of a classroom and provided medicines to an ‘empty’ health centre. We organise many activities related to children’s rights, healthy living, and avoiding accidents. |
| planning ahead |
We encourage the parents of our children to obtain birth certificates for all their children and to have them vaccinated. We insist on equal opportunities for all children. In the coming year we hope to find funding for several small projects. The construction of at least one new room so that our older children who need more time to cover the curriculum can stay longer than half days, the digging of a well near the school, and most ambitiously to reach the target amount of money necessary for the electrification of the school and village which would allow us to use the school after dark (18:30 all year around in this area,)and local people to start small businesses which in turn could help to finance the school. |
Our first children in assembly-
Sept 2000 |
intake of 50 students