The November 2009 Newsletter reported that new project proposals had been received that month from UNCODET. We are now able to report more fully on developments relating to two of these, new classrooms for Msiriwa Secondary School, Njari Village, and the NURU Centre for Orphaned Children based in Ongoma Village, Uru North.
Msariwa Classrooms – an urgent need
As the EC was unable to provide the funding requested in November 2009, with most of its available funding already committed, it decided, at its meeting in January 2010 to make this project the subject of the Chairman’s Appeal this year because of the urgency of the situation. Approximately £8500 has been requested (subject to the fluctuations in the exchange rate), of which £2500 has now been sent to UNCODET for the project. You will find more details of this appeal enclosed with this Newsletter.
NURU Centre for Orphaned Children 
The NURU (North Uru) Centre, which is currently run on a voluntary basis, opened in August last year to try to provide care for some of the young orphaned children in Uru North. A local survey had revealed that there were about 450 in Uru North. The high incidence of HIV/AIDs is very often the reason for the death of young parents. A local woman now living in Moshi had generously given her house in Uru North for this purpose.
See more photos of the Centre in the 2010 album.
