We have now good drinkable water! Beside the electric pump we have also a hand pump in case electricity is unavailable. The electric pump is not fixed at the new building for the time being because we cannot live there yet as the construction is going on. But the pump stays at the neighbors and is brought to our land when needed. Instead of plastic filter we got stainless steel filter which should be working better.
Financial Report:
Drilling 30m water hole …………..…………….$ 250
Pipes and stainless steel filter…..…………….$ 150
Italian electric pump ………………………………..$ 420
Handpump and piping ………..$ 200
Total ……………………………………………………… $ 1020
Thanking you very much for this valuable contribution.
Myanmar (Burma) was hit hard by cyclone Nargis on May 3, 2008. It was the worst natural disaster in East Asia since the tsunami of 2004. Most of the 25,000 known deaths occurred in the southern Irrawaddy river delta region. Unofficial estimates put the deaths at 100.000+.
Officials said the majority of people were killed by a tidal surge 12 ft (3.5m) high. Towns in the Irrawaddy delta were completely flooded and approximately 1,5 million people were made homeless. The old capital Rangoon was without electricity and received enormous damage to is infrastructure.
Our partner organization, AMURT, had volunteer teams on the ground and sent in overseas experts and coordinators. In the first phase distribution of food and medicine was AMURT's immediate priority. AMURT's tried and tested system of making assessment on a family by family basis effectively identified the most vulnerable sectors of the society.
Foundation Emanuele Antola granted a Microdonation to finance the distribution of school uniforms by AMURT to the children affected by the May 3rd, 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar (Burma).
Below is the letter received from the Project Manager.
AMURT continues to work in the area and we are still accepting donations to our Bank Account or online by clicking on the button below.
Project description
This project is for children and youth to help them develop an interest in reading and writing and introduce them to the wonderful world of books through which they will be exposed to fantasies, new ideas, values etc.
The project started in 2000 when we observed the weak reading skills of the children and young adults in the area where the Center is located, specially of the children in poor rural villages. Since then we have done a variety of activities related to improving their reading and writing skills.
Recently the project started to take more shape thanks to funding received from CENAL (National Book Center). At the moment the project is being implemented in 2 villages: la Guairita, 75 families, and Madre Vieja, 60 families. In each village one mother has a small library of children´s books lent to her by the Center. Once a week she goes door to door, talks to the children and to the adults in the house who read to their children and have them choose another book. Every month we do a collective activity with all the children in the village which include story reading, painting, drama etc.
Funding requested for this project:
We want to expand the program to the school of another village: Los Galpones, 150 families, involving hereby the teachers and the parents. The center will facilitate story books to the teachers from preschool up to sixth grade and give workshops about the tremendous benefits of reading aloud to young children as well as older children. The program will include drawing, drama and opportunities for children to write and illustrate their own books.
Didi Ananda Sadhana
Directora Centro MADRE
Carretera Mamporal – San José de Barlovento, Estado Miranda
Teléfonos. 0234.514.56.63 / 0234.511.85.49/0416.400.36.28
Email:anandasadhana@yahoo.com
BUDGET FOR THE PROJECT:
Place: Los Galpones Duración: 12 months
The project includes one facilitator who will give the workshops and supervises the teachers; material for the workshops; material for the art activities and books for the library.
Personnel Mensual/BF Total
Facilitator 75 900
Total 900
Material
Articulo Precio unitario Total
40 Story Books 20 800
10 R. of white paper 9.50 95
10 sets of Crayones 2.80 28
5 boxes with pencils 4 20
10 sets with markers 7.50 75
5 sets with colored pencils 8 40
5 Pencil sharpner 1 5
20 Sizors 2 40
10 boxes of paint 12 120
30 brushes 1.20 26
Total 1.249
Update (April 2009): the
Foundation has wired US$1,000 to the project. The rest of the funds
were secured through other funding agencies. Thanks to all those who
contributed.
This is a request for $2,100 to expand the reading project in Barlovento to a school in a neighboring village. This amount covers a small salary for a facilitator and the rest is for material such as books, paper, paint etc.
Below is the message from the Project Director:
The story reading program: On a regular base the Center lends children’s books to the parents of La Guairita and Madre Vieja to read to their young children. The purpose is to stimulate reading and writing, teach values and to create positive attention activities between parents and their children
Finances are needed for good parenting workshops for the parents, to buy good children story books and other related materials and to pay a full time intern to expand to other villages.
The Ecole Privee Neo-Humaniste in Lome, Togo re-opened in it’s new four-classroom building in October, 2008. With nearly 100 pupils attending the Director and teachers felt an urgent need for sufficient number of desks/benches as well as basic classroom materials.
Assistance from Foundation Emanuele Antola enabled the school to build 64 desks/benches (for 128 pupils) and to purchase books (mathematics and a dictionary) and office supplies.
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