A scheme based on sacrifical giving, Caring and Sharing East Sussex, which raises money for 16 projects worldwide. Fistula Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, School For the Deaf, Dar- Es -Salaam, Tanzania, Work of Father Edwin Abanga, Bolgatanga, Ghana, You and Me clinic, Sudan, Pensions for clergy, Rwanda, Helwel Pre-Schools Feeding Programme, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, True Love Waits, KwaSiza Bantu Mission, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, Feeding Programme, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Casa Guatemala, 27 de Julio Nursery, Lima, Peru, Street Educators, Medellin, Colombia, Emanuel Crèche and Boys’ Farm, Olinda, Brazil, Day Care Centre, Ebenezer Home, Chennai, India, Little Flower Leprosy Village, Sunderpur, India, Church of North India Social Service Institute, Nagpur, India, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Savar, Bangladesh





School For the Deaf, Dar- Es -Salaam, Tanzania
The School for the Deaf at Buguruni near Dar-es-Salaam airport has 250 pupils some of whom are boarders. It is difficult to tell from the photographs that all of the children are profoundly deaf and even with powerful hearing aids must learn sign language to communicate. Most start at the school when they are seven. As well as academic subjects the pupils are helped to learn a skill like sewing or knitting, brick laying and agriculture to enable them to earn a living when they leave school.

Caring and Sharing helps to pay the wages of the 20 non-teaching staff. The five cooks who are employed by the city authority on very low wages have been given a supplement of £3 per month to help them with the rising cost of bus fares to work. Even the teaching staff who are employed by the government suffer much hardship. Our money has also provided new desks and chairs for the classrooms as the white ants eat the furniture. Local fund raising has greatly improved the boys’ dormitories.

There are still problems with the intermittent electricity supply. When there is no power, the computers and the ceiling fans do not work, the audiologist cannot test pupils’ hearing, and water cannot be pumped up from the bore hole. Fortunately, funds have been given for a solar powered water pump to be installed soon.

Greetings from the students at the School for the Deaf!
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