Written by Teacher Margaret
We hope this finds you well. We at happy day are doing well and we are currently doing our end term exams. Schools are closing on Friday this week. Our staff and children are all busy doing the exams. This term has been a busy term for us because in February we had visitors from Norway who kept us busy. After the visitors went back home we participated in a children's rally in Umoja and it was a nice experience for us all.
Our teachers are required to train for the new system of education so that they can teach the relevant material to the kids. Tr. Mary has enrolled into a teachers training college for the same. The new system has come with new challenges which include a change of all text books in all classes, a change in general approach of all thematic areas and a big change in sociology. We hope that by the end of this year all of us will be re- trained for the new curriculum.
One of the kids who had been staying very far away from school has since relocated to a house nearby the school. Thank you so much to Annelene, Tina and the students from their school who have made this possible.
We are closing school on Friday 5th April for the easter holidays and we will reopen on 30th April for second term. We did 10 new admissions for baby class this term.
We have vaccinated 2 of the kids against typhoid which had been a point of concern for a long time. Thanks to those who enabled that. The other 8 need to be screened on the same, treated then vaccinated so that we can have children that are free from typhoid.
Our March/April budget is as follows
SALARIES.. . . 75000
INSURANCE... 14000
WATER...............3000
CHAI...................5200
FOOD..................6500
GAS.....................2400
TOTAL............106,100
TYPHOID
SCREENING...... 1800 × 8 = 14,400
VACCINATION.... 3000 × 8 = 24000
TREATMENT...... 2200 per child depending on how many kids will be sick
