CHILDREN’S HOME and SCHOOL
Magu District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania. E. Africa
We are a small team of Christians working together to help the most
vulnerable children and people in a rural area of Tanzania. East Africa. We
are involved in providing financial support and volunteers to visit both long
and short term to share in the work both here and in Tanzania.
As of February 2015 caring for a total of 127 children
Contact: Graham Pountain
email: graham@pountain.net, Tel 01254 879694
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Monthly meetings
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Past news
Meet the children
Past News-History (11 ys)
Financial reports UK (10yrs)
Spending in Tanzania (11yrs)
Constitution
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Past Visitors
Powerpoint Presentation
Childcare Seminar verification
Photos from the July Trip 2015:
Work-Chores (44pics), Study (22pics), Classes with teachers (9pics),
Portrait pics of all children (119pics), Teachers (11pics), Groups (13pics),
Individuals (46pics), Wildlife (13pics), Reunion feast (78pics),
Reunion Quiz (24pics), Reunion Sports (49pics)
20,000+ Photos in 567 Albums from May 2007 to Present
128 Youtube videos from August 2007 to present
Greetings from Bethany, This is our temporary web page due to the fact the old
computer failed and at the moment I am unable to update the old pages.
However, the old Bethany main index page is here
MONTHLY MEETINGS
Next meeting on Sunday 6th December 2015 at 2pm
You are invited to our monthly meetings which are held on the first Sunday of
every month from 2pm to 4pm. Click for more details
Everyone at Bethany is celebrating the registering of our school. No
more threats of jail if we continued educating our children on site. No
more beating of our children at the government village primary school.
The children will now receive 9 lessons every day and real progress
will be made. Our school is an English medium school where all the
subjects are taught in English which means they have a good
grounding ready for secondary school where all learning is done in
English.
We have great plans for our school and as well as educating our
children (mainly orphans) we are hoping to help the local village
children with extra after school lessons in English and Maths.
Our school staff consists of 6 young women teachers trained in
England ( 3 degree holders and 3 diploma holders). Mr. Musulya our
part time retired teacher and Helen a trainee teacher plus Bahati one
of our older boys (also training to be a teaching assistant).
Sheila wanted a picture of her extended family but we couldn’t get
them all together as Rehema Kassim, Eva Sitta, Minza Onesmo and
China Paulo didn’t make it to the reunion weekend this year.
Reunion Weekend: This is when we invite all ex-Bethany children
to return home to see how their home is progressing and to share
their news and advise their younger brothers and sisters about life
outside Bethany. This year we introduced a 10,000Tsh charge (£3)
to go towards the food and accommodation. As always the
highlight of the meal was the bottle of Soda (costing 16p bottle) as
we only provide these at Easter, Christmas and the Reunion
weekend. Emmakulatha together with the teachers organised all
the activities and Daniel gave a talk about the repayment of loans
etc. You can see the pics of the various activities below.
Reunion feast (78pics), Reunion Quiz (24pics), Reunion Sports (49pics)
News from the July trip: Whilst on this trip Graham took a photo of
every child (except one) and Sheila measured their heights and
weights. Sheila also asked them to write a letter to their sponsors
which they did. Hopefully those of our supporters who are sponsors
will receive a letter and photograph very soon.
Portrait pics of all children (119pics)
New building work: A new accommodation block is being built which
will house 12 teachers ready for next July when Fatuma, Elizabeth,
Stella and Nkamba finish their training. We also hope to build the
bases for the next 4 classrooms.
Next trip: Graham to visit on the 3rd November 2015
10 or 20 miles Canal towpath walk/run/cycle
from dawn to dusk
On Saturday the 2nd January 2016
Starting 8am Gannow Lane bridge, Burnley BB12 6QP
(next to New Life Church – Burnley) to
Riley Green Bridge, Preston (opp. the ‘Boat Yard Inn’ - PR5-0SP)
Half way point (10 miles) is Hermitage Street Bridge, Rishton, BB1 4NL
(Canal View Cafe) which will be open for toilets and refreshments and
will be the finish location for those doing the half-walk-a-thon (10 miles)
91 people turned up to our Quiz night and we had 13 teams in total.
The winners were a team from Padiham Parish Church who won the
trophy. The night raised £616.40p for Bethany which was doubled
by a matching grant. The total with the benefit of gift aid came to
approx. £1,500. Hopefully most people enjoyed the evening
although some thought the questions a little too difficult. The potato
pie and tea was enjoyed by all as were the three songs the Bethany
girls sang. Our thanks to Derek Hartley (quiz master) and to all
those behind the scenes and the Ernest street folk who provided the
venue free of charge and helped clear up after the event. Hopefully
we can hold a similar event next year with slightly easier questions!
If you attended the event you can see your photo here.
TESTIMONY
We have asked all our
Bethany girls and boys to
write a testimony about
their life, before Bethany, at
Bethany and after so that
you can hear from the
children themselves.
Here is a sample written by
our Headmistress
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