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Community Work Projects

We strive to provide an avenue for caring and concerned individuals, who have enjoyed their experiences with us in our area, to enhance life’s prospects for selected groups of children and young people in the surrounding communities.

With the generosity of the people that come to visit and wish to participate we will be able to help fulfill certain pressing needs of local children. Here are a few easy ways for you to give:

1.	Cash donations of $25 or more toward the community projects.
2.	You might choose to bring items either for the school or for the children. Below is a list of some of the most needed items. Please check with us for updated needs.

Girls and boys socks, underpants, under shirts, PJ’s to fit from size 6 to size 14.
It’s best to buy them in larger quantities rather than smaller quantities, so we can distribute on a one-to-one basis through an age group. This way they go further.
Children’s vitamins, hygiene items, something easy to pack.

Tlharwe School:
This school is the poorest of the schools we try to help out and have approximately 80 students.

Tolwe School:
This is a large local school with more than 120 kids ranging from grade K thru 12.

Both schools are within 5 miles of the lodge and can be visited with prior arrangements and depending on school schedules.

Tlhware School - 8/11/2008

Latest update on our school project. We have been able to have a more structured program this year. We’ve recently opened up an account for the project to make it easier to stay organized. We have also added our mission statement & brief summary in my welcome book and on the web site. This way people can plan easily and see what they can bring during their visit to us or can plan to donate at the end of their stay with us. Just this year we have collected enough money to provide 80 little children uniform sweat suits which is needed for the winter here. More important we are trying to implement a small scholarship type of program.

After completing the 8th grade, these children have no way of continuing their education. If they want to continue to high school they have to go to boarding school which is about 2 hours away. For approximately $1400 a student can go to high school and then have the chance to go to technical school after that. We have a list from the head master with 4 children that are excelling and have the desire to go on to high school. We hope to have sponsors for some of them by next year. We are careful not to promise them things as we want to avoid any disappointment.

These children are in 6th and 7th grade now, so we have a little time. The only way anyone is going to make a difference with a strong African culture like this one is to start with the younger children. These scholarships are extremely important; otherwise these children will not be able to further their education which will allow them to obtain gainful employment for themselves and their families.