Touching Africa - Changing lives
Achievements
Completed Projects
Sending Computers to Africa
21 redundant computers were very generously donated by Belmarsh Prison. These were upgraded by You Touch Africa and had additional software installed.
The computers have been sent to Tanzania, where they have been installed in several schools.
Children learning to use the computers at a school in Moshi, Tanzania |
Teaching in a school in Tarakea, Tanzania |
For some fascinated children, this was their first sight of a computer.
Funding a Skills Training Centre in Ghana
You Touch Africa funded new furniture, electrification and sewing machines for St. Mary's Skills Training Centre at Bo, Northern Ghana.
Replacing the Galvanized Iron Roof at Makomu School, Tanzania
The old corrugated galvanized iron roof at Makomu/Kyala Primary School was badly rusting and leaking.
It was replaced in phases
to keep the rain out
of the
classrooms.
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Uomboni Vocational Training School, Tanzania
You Touch Africa provided five knitting machines, one sewing machine and one embroidery machine for the Wawata Uomboni Vocational Training School in Tanzania.
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The school is now being used for the vocational training of girls and the production of school uniforms. Grants totaling £1,800 have been been sent to date, funded from the proceeds of a successful Summer Fair at St. Luke’s Six Form College in Sidcup, UK.
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If you would like to read a translation of a letter of thanks received from the Vocational School, please click here.
Uomboni Secondary School, Tanzania
A new video projector and photocopier were donated to Uomboni Secondary School in Tanzania.
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These were generously provided by St. Luke’s Six Form College in Sidcup, UK.