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The Luhimba Project is indebted to Mark Williams of IWEC Electrical Services of Kidwelly, and his family, friends and business associates, for their loyal and generous support over recent months.
Their kindness has done so much to improve the quality of life of this poverty-stricken community in a remote part of Tanzania, East Africa.
In June 2017 I mentioned to Mark that we were struggling to raise £1800 to install a new water well in the secondary school we built in Luhimba village. The old well was broken beyond repair and the students had to walk over half a mile to the nearest village well several times a day carrying water in buckets on their heads. Mark immediately made a substantial donation and then invited a number of his business associates to contribute to the fund. Within a couple of weeks they had raised the whole amount. By September the new well was installed and working.
In February this year Mark, together with his family and friends organised a fundraising event at the Red Lion, Llandyfaelog in aid of The Luhimba Project. Over £3,322 was raised and as always every penny of that is being spent on village projects, with nothing deducted for expenses or administration. I have visited Luhimba twice since then and have discussed with the village leaders how the money is to be used. Below is a list of projects we agreed to support:
• Funding two students to attend university for three years
• Paying on-going hospital fees for a young girl to receive treatment for fluid on the brain
• Refurbishment of the buildings at Luhimba Primary School – roofing, plastering walls, replacing old woodwork etc
• Plastering walls at two newly built classrooms at Ngembambili Primary School
• Purchasing science equipment for the new chemistry lab at Nguluma secondary school
• Completing building of a new house for a disabled elderly man currently living in very poor conditions in a broken-down hut
• Plans for installing a new well in the village
Below are pictures showing what is being achieved with the money raised in February. These include Angel, one of the students who started university this year, Sara who is now receiving treatment for fluid on the brain, new classroom at Ngembambili Primary School, Abdullah a disabled elder showing his broken down house and the new house built for him, new science lab at the secondary school and Luhimba Primary School where refurbishment work will shortly start.
Paul Temple - November 18.
