· Called “The Little Angels Mabambani Self Help Group”, incorporating “The Little Angels Mabambani Nursery School”. "Mabambani" is swahili for "tin sheets", which is what the current building is made from.
· Located in a small village in Mombasa, Kenya.
· School currently caters to 102 children, 13 are orphans, 32 children have lost a parent, and the remainders are from very poor families. In general all are very needy.
· They have grades from Kindergarten, Preschool, Year 1 – Year 3.
· Government schools only cater from Year 4, and are located approximately 5kms away.
· The school currently exists as a tin shed the size of 2-3 garden sheds to accommodate the 102 children, who sit on either wooden benches or on the dirt floor.
· This shed acts not only as a classroom, but as kitchen, storage & orphanage.
· Costs around 12,000 Kenyan Shillings to feed the children for one month, this equates to approximately $250 Australian Dollars.
· Teachers have a souvenir stand after school which helps support the funds required to buy food, if there are no tourists, there are no funds.
· A small piece of land has been granted to them to use for a school, but no funds are available to build the school they so desperately need.
· They have had building plans donated to build a 3 classroom school, with a small kitchen and storage room.
· The estimated cost to build this school would be AUD$20,000 – AUD$25,000.
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