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10 February 2005
Snippets
The following are some of Blantyre Urban ADP’s achievements since January 2004:
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New classrooms reduce the shortage at
Ndirande Primary School.
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Education
- Built two classrooms and an office at Ndirande Primary School to ease the classroom shortage. Located on an industrial site, this school has 8,000 students, with 80 – 100 students in each class.
- Began construction of a day-care centre for children under-five years of age in Nanthoka village.
- Trained 32 teachers and school principals in first aid and supplied first aid kits to eight primary schools. The availability of medical attention in schools has reduced absenteeism by 40 per cent.
- Awarded over 200 school bags as prizes to top performing primary school students.
- Paid school and exam fees for five sponsored children in vocational institutions. Assisted over 100 secondary school students with school fees and paid exam fees for 35. Provided 10 exercise books for each of 202 sponsored children studying at secondary school. Provided school uniforms for 200 primary school aged sponsored children.
Health and sanitation
- Treated all sponsored children for worms and provided them with mosquito nets.
- Conducted 16 health talks on water-borne diseases and 40 health talks on topics including diarrhoea, malaria, and tuberculosis, with the aim of reducing the incidence of these diseases by at least 75 per cent.
- Trained 190 voluntary health workers and held a refresher course for two health staff.
- Controlled cholera – there were no cases reported in the cholera-prone areas of Nkolokoti and Ndirande during 2004.
- Increased the access to chlorinated water in Nkolokoti township. This now provides 8,000 families with safe water.
Economic development
- Established community gardens for orphans and vulnerable children in each of the 18 villages. Tended by orphan care committees, the gardens will create income to support the children and provide nutritious vegetables for sale in the communities.
- Conducted a business skills refresher course for 15 women so they can train others to run small businesses.
- Purchased a knitting machine with a gift from a sponsor. The proceeds from the garments they produce are used to support orphans.
Leadership development
- Facilitated a four day workshop involving heads of Christian and Islamic congregations on practical ways of combating HIV/AIDS. Two pastors who attended the Southern Africa Regional Pastors’ Conference in Johannesburg last year shared information they learned.
- Trained 90 village leaders and 12 members of the newly elected management committee.
Infrastructure
- Constructed a footbridge in Gamulani Village and began constructing another in Matope village to allow school children to cross the creek more safely as in the rainy season flash floods threaten their lives.
Emergency relief
- Provided 50 families of sponsored children with food packages and sanitation materials, and 500 families with 20kg bags of maize.
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