Carols by Candlelight 3

What a great night we had again at our third annual Carols By Candlelight. It was fantastic to see over 100 smiling faces especially when we were singing 12 Days of Christmas with the actions!
Thanks to everyone for your continued support. We managed to enrol a few new members to our 100 club which pays the salary of 2 teachers now.
Hopefully we will hold another funfilled event in the Summer of 2010. More details to follow in the new year.

New classroom in Ndola

We have received photos of the new classroom that has been built at The New Hope School in Ndola. Apparently everybody there is very excited and the children keep going to look at the new room.

Carols by Candlelight 3

We will be holding the annual Carols by Candlelight evening on December 6th and will be adding in some Christmas poetry this time following on from the success of Poems and Pints.
We really hope this year's event will be bigger and better than the rest.
For further details why not email me at thevornz@hotmail.com?

Funding for 2nd Teacher

Today we emailed Rev.Alick to tell him that for the next year we will be not only paying the salary for one teacher but will also fund a second one. Hopefully this will help them out greatly as one of their other sponsors had to pull out due to the recession. The reason we can do this is that the membership for the 100 club has grown.The only way that we will be able to do this for more than a year is if we ar able to persuade more people to join us. At £2.00 a month it is a fantastic way of ensuring that many orphans and vulnerable children receive the education they deserve.

Poems,Pints and Ploughman's Supper - GREAT!

What a great evening we had last night. Although not as many turned up as expected it was still a fantastic success.People thoroughly enjoyed themselves, reciting and listening to a wide range of poetry. We had great fun with the limerick competition which was won by Stella and Sue who had travelled over from Bath. Thanks to everyone who made generous donations.This money will be going straight to Ndola to complete the classroom at the New Hope School.
Our next event is the Carols by Candlelight evening on December 6th. We hope to see plenaty of peole there for what we know will be a lovely event.

Poems,Pints and Ploughman's Supper Update

We are very excited about our forthcoming event which takes place on Saturday.We thought this would attract about 40-50 people but we now have 120 coming so it should be fun. Some of us have been practising our poetry reading and as long as we don't taste too many speciality beers on the night we should be fine. We will post some photos in the next few days.

Building work progress

We have just received some photos from Christopher in The New Hope School in Ndola. The classroom is now at roof level and next week we will be sending more money to complete the building. They want to get the roof on before the rains start. We are very pleased that the classroom has been erected in such a short time and look forward to more photos very soon.