Starfish Malawi Day at Ysgol Craig y Don - lots of Christmas Costumes and loads of resources to sent to Malawi in the New Year.
We've had two exciting Connecting Classroom days at Ysgol Craig y Don over the past few weeks. We heard yesterday that we have secured a £550 grant from the Edwina Trust to help develop a sustainable energy project called 'Light up Malawi'. The funding will secure a visit to our school by a solar, hydro and wind energy expert to work alongside Year 5 and 6 to make simple solar bulb kits that we can produce and send to Malawi to help the children there do their homework in the evenings. As it gets dark in Malawi at around 5.30-6pm, and with no electricity in most homes, many children cannot read or do work during the evening. Our hope is to use the grant to make simple 'solar' kits to send over to Malawi so the learners in our partner schools can work into the night using the energy produced by the sun during the day.
Thursday saw our 'Starfish Malawi' day at school. Starfish Malawi (click to see their web-site) is a charity, run by Mr Chris Knott, and helps with Educational projects in Malawi. He is visiting Llandudno schools on January 5th and 6th to take assemeblies and talk about his work in Malawi. On Thursday our chidlren dressed up in Christmas costumes and came to school with many items to donate to our partner schools in Malawi. These include pens, pencils, paper, football boots, wool, knitting kneedles and many more things. Llandudno Town Council have even donated a full football kit and tracksuit! A species thanks to everybody who has donated. We are grateful to Asda who donated many packs of crayons and especially to Theresea Evans and the Pearl knitters who donated two large bags of amazing knitted clothes, hats, blankets and mats for us to sell to help fund sending the items to Nkhata Bay, Malawi. Mr Chris Knott will be taking the crammed boxes back to his home in Kent so that they can go in a container which is travelling to Malawi in the New Year. It's been lovely to hear from our friends in South Africa this week too and we wish them all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We can't wait until Next Year when our Connecting Classrooms project will really take off.
What fantastic news!!!! Brilliant work Marc! I wish we, as South Africans also had the assistance you guys have in the UK to be able to help the students in Malawi with the "simple" matter of providing light so that they are able to study. The memory of those students trying to catch the last rays of the evening sun, while diligentley trying to study for exams, is deeply ingrained in my memory. Bravo Wales Prospice!
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