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More women's loans
16 July 2008


An anonymous donor is funding two more large groups of village women so that they can afford to send all their children, including all the girls, to school, as well as earn a sustainable income. We are most grateful


Hostel for Girls at Sawla
16 July 2008


Work has begun on a hostel for girls at Sawla. This will enable girls from the remotest villages to safely attend school and learn to earn a living as well as family and health care.



Vocational school at Sawla
16 July 2008


The District Assembly of Sawla asked Wulugu Project for help to build a Vocational School for Girls in their District. Salwa is very remote, 100km on dirt roads from the town of Tamale, near the Ivory Coast Border and with no post-primary education for girls After the successful building, equipping and opening of four similar vocational schools in Northern Ghana we knew we had the expertise to repeat this in such a very challenging location,

The schools are for girls aged between 15 and 20 to enable them to continue their studies in English, maths and health and gain skills to help them to earn money or set up their own small businesses. There are courses in typing, tailoring, weaving, batik, tie-dying , catering, and hairdressing. Girls, who left school after 6 years primary education and sought unskilled work in the cities, are flocking back to school to gain skills and have a chance to study and work their way out of poverty. They have the full support of their parents many of whom had no opportunity to attend school and are often unable to read or write.

After successfully completing the course in dressmaking at Buipe Vocational School, three girls have been given hand sewing machines to start up their own business in their villages. By helping these young women we are helping the families of the future. We hope to continue this support of other students.

Two generous benefactors, including Man Group plc. Charitable Trust, have agreed to fund the building and furnishing of the Sawla Vocational School, which started in April and will be finished by September.

We now need funds to buy typewriters, sewing machines, cookers, looms, scissors and materials to get the courses started. Ghana Education Service pays the teachers and trainers. There are already 200 students enrolled at Sawla vocational School and another 250 in waiting. The school will give the young women of this isolated area of Sawla a real chance to help themselves and their district have a better life



Solar power
16 July 2008


Karimu in Ghana is looking at the best way to bring solar power and possibly biogas to Bowina school



Improvements at Wulugu Senior Secondary School
1 May 2008


Wulugu Secondary, where our work started in 1993 has been moving forward in a big way.

The Lynne Symonds Library which we built and stocked in 1995, has had so many, much needed, new books sent by World Vision this year that new shelves have been built to house them .

GET fund money is helping to build a new two storey classroom block to house all the extra students. One of the classrooms has been fitted with air-conditioning and dustproof screens to house the 10 new computers, funded by the PTA. Our original computers suffered in the dust. The students are really enjoying their ICT classes.

The new piggery / animal husbandry unit, part supported by generous Wulugu Project supporters instead of Christmas presents, is up and running. The pigs are free range in the school grounds during the day and locked up at night. It is run like a business and the students sell the piglets in the market to pay for feed, vetinary bills and further expansion.

In the school garden, that Wulugu Project fenced, the student learn to grow a variety of vegetables and spices and learn to market them . Their latest project is to plant Mango trees in the school grounds for shade and fresh mangos in a few years time. They have to build mud walls round the sapling bases to protect the young trees from goats, pigs and footballs!



Extension for Bowina Primary School
1 May 2008


In 2006 Wulugu Project built and opened a new primary school with teachers’ quarters in Bowina to replace a mud school that was just washing away. The head teacher was being headhunted to move to a less remote school but on hearing that Wulugu Project was going to build a new 6 form primary school with teachers’ quarters, decided to stay in his village. This was excellent news as his wife, a nurse, provided the only ‘medical services’ in the village and surrounding area.

In 2007 the headmaster wrote that the school was bulging at the seams with 375 children but there were 170 who had been turned away. Could we help?

In March 2008, thanks to the generosity of two large donors the extra 4 classrooms are being built using locally made blocks. No portacabins here. Ghana Education Services have already appointed and are paying the extra teachers and have built a Junior High School to enable the children to benefit from 3 years of post primary education. Education is seen as very precious and a way out of poverty.



Kitchen Table help for Yipala and Zanzagu primary schools
1 May 2008


When Karimu told us of Yipala and Zanzagu, two villages near Tamale, where the locals had built a new school last year but the promised roof did not materialize. In the ‘November rains and floods ‘ the schools were badly damaged . The villagers and their children were desperate to use their new schools. Karimu realised that for just over £4000 both schools could be rehabilitated with new roofs , better foundations , concrete floors and plastering inside and out. This would make the schools much stronger so that they would last for years. Also 500 children would have safe schools to study in , what ever the weather.

Wulugu Project approached the Kitchen Table Charity Trust www.kitchentablecharities.org , founded by John Humphrys , for a grant.

KTCT does support small charities, with specific projects that’ make a real difference to lives in the developing world.’ We were thrilled when our application was accepted. The work will be finished in April 2008



Shop for Wulugu
24 February 2008


The Wulugu Project is now registered with an organisation called Buy At, which enables us to raise funds through online purchasing. Please consider using this. The address is

www.buy.at/Wulugu



Christmas is a time for giving
14 December 2007 So why not give something directly to the people in Northern Ghana?


One bag of cement(they need thousands) £3

One dual desk with seat(they need hundreds) £20

100 building blocks for a school(they need thousands) £30

One typewriter for the vocational school £50

One 1000gallon polythene tank for storing water ( including transport and fitting ) £250

One toilet block £2500

One classroom £4000

Please contact Leona Levine if you would like to donate. Thankyou



Floods in Northern Ghana
29 September 2007 from Karimu (our coodinator and organiser in the area )


There are still power cuts even though people are dying as a result of floods.The rivers have overflowed their banks and we cannot explain the continuing power cuts.It is also still raining very much and the rains are too heavy and fall for several hours at a time.Supplies still get to the south from the north. The roads are open except certain portions where river floodwaters border both sides of the river for miles and can be frightening driving on such roads for fear of the water bridging the road and trapping you.The waters were subsiding but I don't know what the continued heavy rains will do. The Africa Cup of nations is starting in late January, at the peak of the dry season when the floods would have been long forgotten.

In my area as in many others in the north, the floods affected farmlands which are usually lowlying. The villages are built on higher grounds. Many people have lost their homes not to floods but the excessive raing simoly soak the foundatins of the mud rooms and they simply crumble.

One serious consequence of the floods will be hunger next year. Meanwhile I will get everything in place at the various schools as from tomorrow. Thanks for everything.

Sincere greetings to all the Wulugu people.

Kind regards.

Karimu.



Poly Tanks for teachers
16 May 2007


Currently a number of water tanks are being installed so that our teachers don’t have to walk so far for water.


Grant to extend HIV/AIDS Education
16 May 2007


News has just reached us that our bid for a small grant has been successful. We will build on our earlier successful pilot, giving those in the most difficult to reach areas better understanding of issues surrounding prevention of and dealing with infection.

‘Grass root’ teachers are well placed within communities to carry this out and will be rewarded with bicycles for effective work.



Help from Glaxo Smith Klein
1 December 2006


We have been given $1,000 from GSK. This was a reward for the team at Harlow that won an award for being the most outstanding team. They were allowed to nominate a charity to receive the money.


Wulugu Project on the radio in Ghana!
3 November 2006


We are well used to publicity in UK (and it is often misleading) However, at the end of June there was a Ghana radio debate about the problems of recruiting and retaining teachers in the remote rural schools. When the suggestion was made that providing accommodation for teachers might work, one of the contributors pointed out:

‘This is exactly what the Wulugu project has been quietly doing’ and continued to talk about what an effective charity we are! Well done Wulugu.



Sunderland Rotary Club
1 November 2006 to 20 September 2007


Lynne went back to her roots on November 9th to speak to Sunderland Rotary at the Rosedene, Sunderland. This is where she celebrated her 21st birthday—a few years ago!


Eastern Daily Press/CAF
30 August 2006


A joint venture to promote giving involved readers nominating their favourite charity. We were one of the ten finalists and readers then voted for the five that would each receive £1,000. We were delighted to be one of the final five. Interesting that we were the only charity in the group that does not employ anyone.



Zaami Roof
1 March 2006


Eileen and Stephen Palmer gave, on behalf of many who usually receive more conventional Christmas presents from them, a roof for Zaami school! We are pleased to report that this school no longer needs to shut during the long rainy season.


Experimental Garden at Wulugu Sec
1 December 2004


When we visited in May it was very clear that this is really benefiting the school. With the help of a VSO we provided a fence for this in 2004.


Registered Carity No. 1060691
Patron: Baroness Chalker of Wallesey, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, Oona King , Lord Tunnicliffe