Children at the two schools in the Batwa communities of Rwamahano and Muribindi can now enjoy lessons sitting at new wooden desks thanks to generous gifts from donors . Recent news from Timothy , AICM director, and George, the financial manager, currently visiting UK, told of the delivery of 30 desks to the two schools. Also of school equipment such as exercise books, pens, pencils and chalk--hardly luxuries for us , but welcomed as great gifts by children and staff at the schools. As a result of this, and the regular posho breakfasts now provided and stable staffing, recruitment and maintaining pupil attendance is improving.Gifts totalling just over £10,000 into the Friends of AICM Batwa fund in the year 2009 to 2010, which includes gifts received through Global Giving, are ensuring that for the present AICM can offer these children the primary education they deserve.In order to preserve this for years to come we need folk to continue their generous giving to this very needy cause. For the present please continue to use our Global Giving Pgygmy project. We are shortly going to replace the Pygmy project on the site with another equally needy project which we hope that Global Giving donors will feel they can give to, but giving to the Batwa fund which we hope will continue to fund these childrens` education will still be possible through the Friends of AICM website which we would urge you to look at:- www.aicm.org.uk .You can also read our latest newsletter through the website which contains a moving account of how three friends from AICM UK spent a night with the Batwa community at Rwamahano back in October, the first white people to do so.Thank you for your interest and support which we pray will continue.

Pictures:

• Hooray, desks to sit in! (JPG)
• Batwa school children queue for posho breakfast (JPG)