PROGESS - BOTSWANA EDUCATION CENTER ALMOST DONE

WHEN CHILDREN SUFFER

FROM LACK

OF

EDUCATION

We have been working in Khwai, Botswana for several years - a bush village of around 700 people.  We have noted their many struggles and have done what we could over the years to share His love.  

• helped establish an education program for teen moms - education, parenting classes and relationship building - with the goal of helping little children stay with their mothers in the village
• brought community activity resources - soccer uniforms, balls, to help the community play together and bring others out to support them
• replaced their destroyed drums to bring back the cultural activities and music missed in their village
• brought two teams from Samaritans Feet to deliver new shoes to everyone in the village, which involved in praying for each person while serving them directly
• put doors on different houses/huts to help keep the animals out of the home - and keep children safe

Each intervention has been to bring the community together, help them strengthen their future, build partnership and collaboration and to open the door for those wanting to help - have a voice within the village .  

It is a reality that ...

"PEOPLE DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU KNOW, UNTIL THEY KNOW THAT YOU CARE."

The village suffered a serious flood and lost many huts/home to the flooding.  Progress once on the go - slowed and survival became the focus of all work.  Then once again there were needs additional issues and needs to be met.  

• Children were being sent out of the village to a boarding school - coming back to the village only a couple of times a year.  There was little preparation for this and children were not finding education success
• Girls were dropping out of the school when puberty surfaced
• Young boys were not finding success and were dropping out as well coming back to the village 

THEN CHANGE CAME...a national funder stepped in and decided to build a school in the village - bringing education HOME! 

UPON WHICH A NEW NEED WAS IDENTIFIED - little children who are growing up in the village by the teen moms are not prepared for school -  the teen moms are those very girls who dropped out of school upon the advent of puberty.

CHILDREN NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR SCHOOL - TO LEARN THE BASICS AND 

this was not being done - not due to want - due to skill and knowledge.  

ENTER A NEW STRATEGY to renovate a vacant building in the village to start a pre-school and use for education for the children/youth who have not been able to complete their education from the boarding schools.

 

 

Then the PAINTING!  

NEXT?  INSIDE FURNISHINGS AND THEN THE CLASSES!

THANK YOU, SPONSORS!  

YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE BY INVESTING IN THIS VILLAGE.

Partnership Team:

LAMb INTERNATIONAL 

BUSHWAYS FOUNDATION

EARLY EDUCATION

NATURE ZONE 

NATLESANA CHARITY FUND AND 

ORPHAN'S PROMISE

We will be in Botswana in February and will witness the opening of the school - see the completed building, spend time with the children, the moms and bring Hope and Promise of His Blessing upon the village.  We praise Him for this progression of Hope and Promise so witnessed in the changes in the village.

Please pray for these moms, young boys and little children who will be coming together with their moms to prepare for success in their new village school!

THIS PROJECT IS FAR FROM COMPLETE AND YOU CAN STILL HELP - JUST INVEST BY USING THE DONATE BUTTONS HERE AND IDENTIFY THAT YOUR DESIRE IS TO INVEST IN THE ....Khwai Education Project!

THANK YOU!