In our SVP school, the children have slowly returned, meaning they have finally left the refugee camps in Chiaquelane and Macia. This is despite official government announcements that all the displaced population should be sheltered in safe locations (such as Chiaquelane and Macia). Following this return to the village, we started a small census of the children in SVP directly sponsored by our portuguese sister-charity UPG. We had a total of 79 children in the final week of February, though it is important to note that every day the situation seems to stabilise and more children are returning to school.
For now I am organising the class lists for the after-class study centre in SVP. I intend to send you final enrolment lists by the end of next week.
During this period we managed to distribute our basic monthly baskets to the families under our support programme. These contained rice, corn flour, oil, salt, sugar, beans and peanuts. These baskets made a dramatic difference to our impoverished families in the area.
We were also blessed with school material kits containing 10 notebooks, a ruler, a rubber, two roll pens, two pencils, a pencil sharpener and a school bag from Unicef.
This is a small summary of what happened here in February.
A huge thank you"
Hilario,
ALG Technician in SVP school, Chokwe
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