Choba Nursery School, Pangani, Tanzania Coast

We are proud to announce that we have now completed the Choba Nursery School project.....funded and created in a few frantic months!

Our roving trustee and key project inspector Valerie McGivern identified the need for a nursery school at Choba Village, near Pangani on the Tanzanian coast. With essential funds raised on the gruelling Borneo Challenge by Joy Skipper, founder of CPA, Valerie was able to work with the villagers to construct a simple nursery school classroom, register over 50 pupils and bring nursery education to a particularly impoverished part of Tanzania - all within three months!

The children have just celebrated the end of their first term with a Parents Day also attended by a host of local dignitaries who could not have been more complimentary. The 50 children, aged between 3 and 6 years old, demonstrated what they have been taught by their two excellent young Tanzanian teachers. This included singing, dancing, recognising fruits, vegetables and parts of the body, writing, counting and simple arithmetic. This was all in English in a village where there are only three adults who speak any English at all!!

Can you help? We are currently working on providing a primary school at Choba and the nursery school will need year on year running costs. The teachers need a salary and money with which to buy and cook porridge for the children - they are never fed before they leave home. So please help these children from a subsistence farming village break the cycle and have a good start in life. Contact us.