Hi everyone, time to update you on the progress of our IT donation & fundraising…Please do keep going!
http://paypal.me/friendsofpakati or http://gofundme.com/friends-of-pakati
Here below is why we are doing what we do – the students of Pakati Primary, who are also future students of the Secondary school.
The IT suite at Pakati Secondary school has been ready for some time, now we are preparing to send more computers out there, so they can start to have formal IT lessons.
So, thanks to Sarah Dent who set this donation in motion – she spoke with us recently about it here: https://friendsofpakati.com/2024/09/13/new-podcast-sarah-dent/ – and now herself & her colleagues at Tronox have done us a great service by organising the transport of the goods to our shippers, Coedma Freight International Ltd in Leicester.
They arrived safely at Coedma, and are being prepared for the next part of their journey by air.
So next, fundraising….
We started out with £763 in our bank account. The estimate for shipping the goods was higher than anticipated, due to the weight of the goods at over 240kg. It came to around £2700. So, almost £2000 short…I put in £500, two others have added another £200. Next, a couple if smaller donations totalling £30, followed by another £200, and £100, brought our figure up to almost £1800 – leaving us a little over £900 short!
That is a huge leap forward for us, and we are extremely grateful to all who donate, no matter how small or large the amount. We genuinely appreciate every penny. If you or anyone you know would like to donate further, the links are at the top of the page.
Sarah at Tronox has very kindly published this on their internal newsletter:
Friends of Pakati is hoping we can work together with Tronox again in the future, it may develop into a longer term partnership, who knows?
More to come in the next few weeks, as we track the goods to Harare, then all being well, deliver them to Pakati schools in October! As in 2019 & 2022, we will post more about our visit to show what happens to the computers, & in future the schools will send us more pictures, videos & information as the students progress with IT lessons – thus helping to meet our original goal as set out from when Mr Chifaka, then Head of Pakati Secondary school said to me in 2018, when I asked what development he would like to see there, & he said one word:
Computers.
