Verein zur Ausbildung und Förderung von Menschen in Afrika
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CAAA
les Collégiens Akadiens et leurs
Amis Africains
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les Collégiens Akadiens et leurs
Amis Africains
2016
Renovations
2014
Everyday school life
2009
Multi-purpose hall
2009
Launch oft he school
2007
Construction of the school
2006
Hygiene improvements
Svenja Strahm visited the school at the end of 2014 and documented her experiences in a travelreport.
Here are some impressions:
The multi-purpose hall with a kitchen and a canteen for Ndijani. When the Zanzibar Swiss School for Education and Professional Training opened its doors in the village of Ndijani in 2009, a few hundred children were signed up for classes. Since then, the number of students has increased dramatically. The five classrooms now have to be divided into shifts in order to accommodate all of the children. Space in the temporary kitchen has also become scarce. For this reason, another building, a multi-purpose hall with a canteen and a kitchen, was built on the school grounds.
The Zanzibar Swiss School for Education and Professional Training has been in full operation since its opening in April. Our persons in charge in Ndijani take their work very seriously and appointed a special school committee in summer 2009 to take care of safety and cleanliness in the school, as well as its maintenance. Currently, a garden with indigenous plants is being run on the school grounds.
Towards the end of 2007, the construction of the actual school, Zanzibar Swiss School for Education and Professional Training, had begun. About one and a half years later, in April 2009, the completed school was officially opened in a festive ceremony by the President of Zanzibar. Since then, several hundred children have been attending school here.
At the end of 2006, CAAA initiator and president Nicolas Sarraj travelled to Zanzibar to discuss and plan the first phase of the school project in Ndijani, a village in the middle of the jungle. Meeting basic needs and improving hygienic conditions were set as the first priorities: The 7000 villagers of Ndijani received a draw well for clean drinking water, water towers and tanks for storage, and public showers and toilets connected to the water supply network. Mosquito nets have been provided so that the residents can better protect themselves against infection with malaria.
