Elizabeth and David Dunford

Elizabeth writes:

One of the developments I was very keen to see at school was a feeding programme to provide school lunches.  It has taken a great deal of organisation but I am delighted that lunch was provided on the first day of term and every day since.

One of the parents cooks the food in her home and brings it up to school using local transport!

The food is simple, but nourishing, consisting of maize meal and cabbage on some days and thick soup and a large hunk of bread on others.  It is good to see them eating:  so many of the students, particularly the boys, are permanently hungry.

We have been given a field by the village chief and planted our own maize.  Last week, it needed weeding so the students brought hoes and spent the morning working to improve the yield that will be their lunch later in the year.  It is also seen as part of their Agriculture project, a subject they now study at school.