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A class room renovated and a small library set up: the results of the second phase of the renovation of the school building

 

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Preview of forthcoming IPA Projects

 

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Gambarou, North Cameroon

In this village a group of parents have built two small classrooms where the children sit on tree trunks. But in fact 200 pupils should be taught here. Working together with the parents council IPA is planning to erect a proper clay-brick school building, including toilets, equipment and school materials.

 
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Përmet, South Albania
The college students in this town have no access to literary texts, but are expected to know them when they sit their final examinations. An unusual project shall change this absurd situation.
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Kala Kafra, North Cameroon
For a villager who has fallen ill it is almost impossible to get medical help. In their distress some men have begun to build their own medical centre. This private initiative will now be supported by the State of Cameroon. It will help with the building and the finding of medical personnel. IPA will provide the water supply and the equipment.

 

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Teaching in the school of Shkopet up till now took place under the most difficult conditions. Slowly the situation is improving.

 


For a long time Shkopet has featured on IPA’s list of schools in urgent need of renovation. Thanks to the help from Chramschopf Zollikerberg the situation could be improved in a first step last year and a second step this year. During the summer of 2010 the renovation and fitting out of a class room and a small library were at the centre of this phased project.

Both rooms were in such a condition that they could no longer be used. The community, however, did not have the means to ameliorate this situation. At long last the windows and doors of the two rooms could be replaced and the walls repaired and re-plastered. Thus, what was used as storage rooms before could be turned into adequately equipped rooms. In addition, black boards and ovens were bought for the whole school so that no one has to be cold again during winter.

The small library is something very special for the children. For the first time they can borrow books and have something to read. In a region that can’t offer any cultural activities whatsoever and where it is difficult to organise any useful ways to spend the free time, this means a large gain for children and youngsters.