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THE QUEENS AND KINGS SCHOOL
Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

FEBRUARY 2006

Dear Friends and Supporters of
The Queens and Kings School, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Please help us to pay back our loans

Thank you so very much for all those of you who have supported us so far in any way with money and with your prayers.

Recent donations have included several from Christian Science churches – 2nd Church, Birmingham (UK) are sponsoring two of our children. Other churches have had collections for us and 1st Church, Bournemouth (UK) had a Bring and Buy Sale for us and 1st Church, Sheffield (UK) held a wonderful concert and gave all the proceeds to The Queens and Kings School. We are very grateful to all involved with this giving.

We also received a most marvellous donation from a Charitable Trust which paid for more than half of the cost of our newly acquired bus. It is a white bus and on the sides in green the wording “The Queens and Kings School” and on the back in red “Dagny” and on the back and front in green “Educational”.

We received a lovely local donation from the Rotary Club of Douglas (Isle of Man) to pay for all the costs involved in getting our generator (and 7 boxes of school books [given to us by Claremont Fancourt School - Surrey, UK]) over to the school. This consignment is to be shipped on the 5th February and will arrive by the end of the month, in time for Trevor to help with getting it in place.

We are most grateful to the six people who give us standing order payments each month – these total £168 and are a great regular help towards all our expenses.

We now have 11 sponsors for our children. These people have paid £72 to be a sponsor for a year for a child. These children are very proud to be scholarship children and most (together with their parents) are corresponding with their sponsors.

We are very grateful to Bruce and Gina at The Art Store, Kirkby Lonsdale for giving us the advertising space in their Quarterly bulletins – a most generous gesture and several of our donors have read about the school and our Workshops in the Bulletin.

It has seemed right to us to complete the school (at least the ground floor) and to be making a start on the accommodation for teachers, and to purchase the school bus. All these further our aim of educating these wonderful Nigerian children to embrace and express the qualities of God in their lives. To give girls as well as boys a good and well-rounded education and start in life. This has involved us in borrowing substantial sums totalling over £20,000. Having the school complete and improving the road and buying the bus will all enable more and more children to attend the school and when they have paid their fees this will make the school self sufficient as regards teachers’ fees, school equipment and exercise books, writing tools etc.

Anything you are able to do to help us pay back our loans will be most appreciated.

See right column to make a donation.
With love and gratitude

Ros

Below is a message from Trevor in Nigeria

Mustard Seed Update -
22JAN06/ 4FEB06-The Queens and Kings School, Port Harcourt

I started writing this little note before going to church on Sunday Morning

It is a lovely sunny morning here, but at the modern flat where I am staying there is no electricity (as usual!) so I am operating the computer by battery. Also we have had no running water for some three weeks and so the water has to be collected by bucket and carried up three floors. Even when we will get running water the wc does not work! Such are the challenges of an underdeveloped country.

However on the school front there is only good to report.
· A GOOD ACCESS ROAD AT LAST.
Last weekend we came to the conclusion that all the promises of the road construction company were empty, they had promised to provide the materials for free, but they had done nothing, nor had they sent their machines in to work the road, so Stella last Saturday went to the sand fields and brought in 10 lorry loads of Latrite (brown mud) to fill in all the holes in the road. On Tuesday we hired a big grader for the day and they worked the road. It took all day, but then for the first time we now have a good, wide, accessible road from the main Airport Road all the way to the school premises.

· NOW WE HAVE A SCHOOL BUS! It is very necessary to have a school bus so we can bring in children from different parts of Port Harcourt as many parents have no transport facilities and their children should not be discriminated against.
In December we had received one sizeable donation towards the school bus so we transmitted this amount plus some smaller amounts from the UK to Port Harcourt by bank transfer.
Stella and the teachers have done some research and it became obvious that we would not be able to get the quality of school bus we need for the original budget of N 1,000,000. For this money the vehicles offered are very tired, 12 –15 years old, probably having done over 200, 000 miles (even though the mileometer may say 70,000!). They could be a liability to the school.
It was clear we would need to pay nearer N 2,000,000 for a quality bus . So we have borrowed some money and bought a Toyota Hiace 1998cc petrol engine bus, which is only four years old, and has only done 80,000 miles. This vehicle should have cost some N 2,500,000 but we managed to buy it for N 1,500,000 (£6,250/$10,870) which is a very good buy indeed. On the 1FEB06 we started a driver

· PTA MEETING 21JAN06. This was our best PTA Meeting to date, being very constructive. At this meeting Stella told the parents about the proposed PRAISE GIVING DAY on 27JAN06, which they thought was a very good idea. It was agreed that the parents wishing to use the school bus for transporting their children should pay N5,000 (£21/$36) per term for the service of the bus (fuel and driver).

· PRAISE GIVING DAY 27JAN06. This was a big success and 150 people attended.
The school hall was dressed with ribbons and balloons. All who attended enjoyed a meal of Chicken and Rice, cooked on the school premises by some of the parents, and they drank Maltina and water. We sang eight hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal (283, 280, 150, 58, 324, 275, 124, 1). A number of people said they were highly impressed and that the children did very well and scored the school between 90% and 99%. Some people said that they were truly uplifted. A Senator who attended asked us to make sure we don’t lose the vision, and told us to keep it up.
The event was videoed by CTL Cable Television, partly paid for by the PTA. The Program for the day included a Mustard Seed talk by myself on the subject of gratitude and thanksgiving using the texts, I Chron 16: 8-12,18,23-24,27-29,31,34 and Luke 17:12-19. This talk was based on the spiritual ideas found in the healing of the ten lepers and was very well received by a few people, including a number of Chiefs, who requested the opportunity to attend a full Mustard Seed Workshop in the near future.

· SHIPPING OF GENERATOR FROM UK We currently have no electricity in the school but on the 3FEB06 a generator was shipped from the UK to Port Harcourt. We have received a donation from the Rotary Club of Douglas (Isle of Man) to cover the cost of the shipment and installation at the school. Already we have started buying and installing ceiling fans in the school, as we need to keep the classrooms cooler.

· NEW STAFFS We are pleased to report that we are grateful that we have been able to take on three new members of staff, Hyginus a teacher for Nursery I, Oguchi a minder for the Pre-Nursery, and Danjuma our driver.

· FIRST TERM EXAMS We have completed the first term exam, the results of which will enable us to do more work on training the teachers and re-enforcing the work done with the children. Mathematics is still weak in the Primary section.

· DAY CARE FACILITIES The School has recently been requested to accept younger children from 18 months old, so we are currently organising a Day Care Centre in one of the classrooms and we are having twelve small beds constructed for the rest room. Mattresses have been bought for this purpose. Three Janglava pieces of equipment have been bought, a swing, slide and roundabout. These are now in use and the children are very happy playing on them.

· FUTURE SCHOLARSHIPS Now that we are providing transport facilities, have increased teachers salaries and have book lists for each class the cost of scholarships in the future will need to increase.

Much love from
Trevor Leach

 

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Rosalind Leach
38 Reayrt y Chrink
Port Erin
Isle of Man
IM9 6BF
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THE QUEENS AND KINGS SCHOOL MOTTO

Truth Holds Everyone in

Quiet Understanding, of Equality, Equity in
N
oble Service as

All Negativity is Destroyed

Knowledge Inspires and Nurtures Goodness
and Serenity

 
 
 
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