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Five years ago we had a
dream. We had a vision to provide a
primary school (seven year olds to fifteen year olds) for the orphaned and
deprived children in Lira in Northern Uganda.
At
that time the Lord‘s Resistance Army were at their height of carrying out
their atrocities in the area which surrounds Lira.
Many of our children in L.O.S.T. were having their education disrupted as
they were brought into the safety of Lira town.
Now peace-talks are in progress and the area is experiencing peace for the first time in twenty years.
From Cleared Site in 2003 to Functioning School 2007
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The Inner Quadrangle |
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some smart new school desks |
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| We have recently opened our local Community Needs clinic using the rooms that are completed to date. This means that we can serve local people as well as the school pupils. | 
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Because of the peace initiative, many children who were abducted are being released and we are being asked to provide accommodation for the older ones as well as to educate them.
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I
am pleased to report that because of the overwhelming generosity of the people
of Wales, the school is nearly finished and has eight classrooms.
Primary 1 through to Primary 5 is up and running.
Sixty children are currently provided with full overnight accommodation
in our completed computer and library rooms.
These rooms will be needed for their proper use in the next academic
year, in February 2008, and so it was that in May this year we laid the
foundations of a girls dormitory wing. We
are calling it a safe home. This
first accommodation block is now up to roof level height and it is hoped to
follow it with a similar block for boys as funds are available.
I
am therefore appealing to anybody who reads this to help us financially with
this final push that will make the school fully operational sooner.
At present we are having to turn away children as we do not have this
accommodation available.
May
I conclude by expressing my sincere thanks to everybody who has made this happen
through their generosity. If
you can help us to complete this work please send your gift, made out to L.O.S.T.
education, to Charles Owens, Y Wern, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey LL61 6UR or ring me
for further information on 01248 430637.
(Editor’s
note:
The School’s
name might sound unfamiliar to some of you, but links it with the
Karadali Nursery School, also run by L.O.S.T.
Some previous articles name the school as Mynedd Bach)