JPMorgan helps CHildren in Crisis

Children in Crisis received funding from JPMorgan to build three schools in the Mid and High Plateau Region of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.  Each school has six classrooms with a capacity for approximately 300 children, one office for teachers and four latrines.  Tables and chairs for each classroom and the teachers' office have been supplied along with training materials, notebooks, textbooks and stationery for the first year after the school has been completed.  These schools will be in place to build enquiring minds, repair damaged relations between communities and convey life-saving messages, for example, about the risk of HIV/AIDS.  All three schools are now finished enabling 900 children every year, the chance to go to school.

Women from the villages worked especially hard to help build the schools.  At Mugorore in Bibokoboko women interviewed spoke of how they fetched sacks of cement from the store:

The sacks each weigh about 100 kilos, so between us, we share the load.  We get the sand from the river which is about 3km away, and the stones for the foundations from the mountains behind the village.

 When asked what their motivation for their hardwork has been , one woman responded:

To have a place where our children can be better educated.  We want the best for our children, and knowing that soon our children will learn in a proper school is like a dream come true.