Registered Charity No: 1096242
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Friends of Tafo, PO Box 43826 London NW6 1XG
Friends of Tafo Newsletter WINTER 2005
Friends of Tafo is a UK Charity that facilitates and inspires sustainable development
in education, health, employment and infrastructure in the town of Kwahu-Tafo,
Ghana, West Africa.
Room for expansion
After intense fundraising in Ghana and the UK, the Senior Secondary School is ready for computers (before and after photos below). First in: 14 computers from TV producers Celador.
The last six months
Here are some of the wonderful and surprising elements of every day life of Tafo
which your money has supported...
Fishes, frogs and dinosaurs roam in young potter Samuel Larbi's imagination...
and shop, thanks to FOT funding (below left)
Ian and Henry (above right) from Forest Gate in London took their places in a class at the Islamic Primary
School which Eastside Young Leaders Academy is helping to rebuild.
All's well... five of the town's 8 handdug wells have been refurbished thanks
to Douglas Turner Trust
Francis Yeboah and beekeeping students check one of the first hives (below left) donated by readers of GoodGifts Catalogue.
A patient receives her first ever eye examination (above right) thanks to Bombus Foundation in Sweden
BFSS have sent no less than £7,000 worth of text books to the Senior Secondary
School.
And ... The Royal Music Academy now has an income generating brass band, thanks
to ie:music. 'I like it', the tuba player (below) told us: 'It is my talent'.
The next six months
We have lots of plans for projects in the near future and longer term but we
urgently need funding to make them happen! An international expert is waiting
in the wings to teach our recently trained Bead Makers and Tie and Dyers how to
enter the tourist market (below left and right).
The Senior Secondary School will expand to include courses in Arts and Humanities,
if we can put a floor and doors in our newly built classrooms.
The Kindergartens have no toys or teaching resources. Help us to equip the Kindergartens
so children can be given a good start in life (below).
UNESCO is teaming up with us to make a major appeal to donors to connect Tafo
schools to the internet.
£10 to spare? It could stop a child missing a whole year of school.
A team of teacher trainers are ready to come and hold in-service training workshops
as soon as we can get them to Tafo.
AND the first entry in your 2006 diary! May 21st, Hackney Empire: The Empire
Strikes Black 3... 2005 was a sell out: don't miss 2006!
What you can do:
Donations: join our list of generous friends! Donations by cheque, standing order or internet:
www.givenow.org and www.cafonline.org
Major thanks go to: Celador - Good Gifts - ie:music - Prestigic Holdings - British and Foreign School
Society - Washlands Women Runners - Christmas card buyers - Northern Rock - Society
of Friends -
Gresley Mission Room - Eastside Young Leaders Academy - Douglas Turner Trust -
Samuel Whitbread Community College and many others...
Portrait of Tafo
This beautiful book gives a unique insight into the community we are supporting. Photographer Robert Taylor is donating all proceeds to Friends of Tafo.
The book costs £15 (+£2.50 p&p) click here for more information.
Friends of Tafo
Chair: Humphrey Barclay, Development Chief (Nkosuohene) of Kwahu-Tafo
Secretary: Georgina Owen; Treasurer: Benjamin Ntim; Trustees: Crispin Leyser,
Jules Leyser, Daisy East, Lizzie Pomeroy, Robert Taylor;
Committee Members: Colena Abbosh, Jessica Dallyn, John Ofori, Adipat Virdi