Community Contributions
Korech School, which hosts 200 students each day, is a cluster of makeshift
buildings with grass roofs and sandy floors. Although the rooms are hot and dusty, the desks are in neat rows and the teachers are in command of their engaged students. Perhaps the oddest things about the school are the piles of rock and gravel that dot the yard between the thatched classrooms, piles which are growing daily as women bring buckets of sand from the nearby riverbed. Most of these women are doing double duty, as mothers of children who attend the school and members of the Women’s Association, which is gathering under a nearby tree to discuss progress towards the new school building and eventual rooftop water catchment system that will provide clean water to the staff and students.
These women have been labouring in love, faithfully carrying heavy loads to the school as part of the community contribution to the project. They are no strangers to hard work: in addition to their individual household work and gathering sand for the new school, they are also busy tending a communal garden, for which FAR provided seeds, that is now producing surplus vegetables that they are selling in the local market. READ MORE...
FAR’s mission is to facilitate the holistic transformation of vulnerable communities in Sudan and to enable them to address and overcome the root causes of poverty. READ MORE...
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