The Leighton Park PTA has raised monies to purchase books for schools in Africa and three weeks ago approached the Bujagali Trust's UK manager, Sue Symonds, to enquire as to how that might be managed. Sue responded immediately with a number of options for schools in Uganda and, as a result, the PTA sent the trust a cheque for £400.
This arrangement was entirely separate from the current Uganda trip but, by pure coincidence, Sue arrived in Jinja yesterday for one of her many visits each year.
With Valley View being one of the many schools that the trust supports the staff and pupils received a welcome boost this morning when Sue arrived to hand out exercise books and pencils for every child in the school. Some of the LP students working at Valley View today helped her give out the books and the excitement in every classroom was clear to see.
With text books to follow at Valley View and a number of other schools in Jinja the trust are clearly spreading the PTA donation around.
It was a real privilege to see the effect of this donation as it took place. Thank you to the PTA and thank you to the trust in managing this so swiftly as to enable our students to be a part of the process.
The photos below say it all!
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