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Qibirha School Construction Project

“… we were suffering very much. We didn’t have enough classes for learning because we were learning in the shearing shed and churches. Students got sick from spending too much time in the shed, and others dropped out. The shed was in very bad condition because the roof leaked and anytime it rained normal classes stopped. We didn’t have toilets and taps…”
The Student

A project in the village of Qibirha, also in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa involved the construction of a new school. The children in Qibirha attend high school in a sheep-shearing shed. This is not an environment for learning because of the lack of basic educational facilities. Also, it is a very unhealthy environment for the children to stay in all day long.

The community has undertaken an initiative to construct a new secondary school in their village. They established a school building committee and undertook a fund raising effort. Each household was required to contribute the equivalent of $5 and 10 bricks.

Qibirha School construction

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The community took the initiative to make the lives of their children better. They did not wait for government to do something for them; they taxed themselves and took the initiative to build a school for their children.

Qibirha community

coalition, locl government, south africa, schools, democracy

- 06/16/2005

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