Note on ADH's microfinance projects
Joseph made good progress in his work in Nsioni which is very encouraging to see how he invests the funds we gave him for this farming project. He made a gate for the farm, also built a boat for the fishponds and made a new channel to feed the ponds with water.
ADH decided to start a new micro finance project with our local manager Jean. He needs support for vegetable seeds to make progress on hi...
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Agricultural teaching in practice
The school principal, Agronom Philemon, also started a new project with the students of the agriculture department in front of the school buildings, where they plant vegetables, and everyone has to take care of their own strip from the field.
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Fortunately no interruption of school lessons necessary
Thank God, the corona virus is not so prevalent in Congo as in other countries, so that our school can stay open and the students attend classes. ADH continues to pay the teachers, but our hope is that the Ministry of Education will soon take over that responsibility, since our school has been registered as a government school since the beginning.
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New building with two more classrooms and staff room
After building a well for drinking water for our school by the middle of this year, the parents of our students initiated and supported the making of 10,000 bricks for another school building. In 2018, our school started out with three classrooms each for grade 7 and 8. Each year, we added new grades, and this school year we needed 2 more classrooms for the agricultural and veterinarian section of...
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Our school in Mabala gets a well for drinking water supply
A great victory is the building of a well for drinking water for the school children as well as for watering the school’s agricultural projects. Mr. Shako, a well specialist, came with his team all the way from Mbandaka, 670 km north of Nioki, for this task. They found water at a depth of 7 meters, but they continued to dig to 10 meters so that the school would have water in all seasons. Both the ...
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ADH meeting this year for the first time via video
This year's ADH meeting was dominated by the COVID 19 pandemic. For the first time, the annual general meeting in mid-July did not take place in person, but via video in the digital room. As sad as we all were about not being able to meet in person this year, two ADH members had taken advantage of this and were connected from their "holidays". Besides the usual formalities and future plans discuss...
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