Peter Virdee Charitable Foundation funding the construction of a new school in Bibangwa, DR Congo

We are thrilled to announce a brand new partnership with the Philanthropist, Professor Peter Virdee, whose charitable basis is investment the development of a brand new faculty in Bibangwa, DR Congo.

Located a 3 hours’ stroll from the closest road, at the High Plateau of jap DR Congo, Bibangwa’s youngsters are on the extremes of isolation. They’re receiving no assist or funding from the authorities or different organisations. The cutting-edge wattle and daub faculty, constructed via way of means of a innovative network who're determined for his or her youngsters to research, has sadly been ruined via way of means of the Plateau’s torrential rains.

Thanks to the Virdee Foundation’s assist, we are able to be capable of paintings with Bibangwa’s mother and father to assemble a brand new, long lasting, six-lecture room faculty for his or her youngsters. The Virdee faculty might be network-owned and network-run. It might be a secure and dry area wherein destiny generations of youngsters can draw close their threat to research.

The Virdee Foundation’s project statement

‘To relieve the wishes of girls and youngsters who've or who're in hazard of struggling intellectual, bodily or sexual abuse.’

Our file at the situation of Bibangwa’s faculty, and the situations wherein youngsters are looking to research, left the Virdee Foundation in no doubt – that their assist will convey lasting enhancements to the intellectual and bodily wellness of Bibangwa’s youngsters.

The new faculty

Bibangwa’s new faculty might be made from long lasting materials; strong brick partitions with deep foundations, galvanized (rust resistant) metallic roofing sheets, cement floors. It might be designed to last, and to shield youngsters from the bloodless and the rain.

Desks and benches withinside the faculty’s six lecture rooms will deliver each toddler an area to sit. They’ll now not need to droop over books perched on their laps. Windows will permit herbal mild to light up the lecture rooms. Children might be capable of research with out distraction from uncomfortable, darkish surroundings.