Southbank International School in London has a history of ties with the Mwereni School for the Blind, including an annual CAS trip made by our Westminster students every year.
This year, students, teachers, parents, and the local community, raised money to enable a water an irrigation system to be installed, providing the Mwereni pupils with much-needed clean water. This is now one of the few schools in Tanzania to have its own water source and it has been a life-changing experience for the people there. Mwereni Headmaster Damas Urenge said: "It is dry here, but with the donation of water both the kids and plants are full of life."
23 IB1 students visited the school this year, the largest group ever, ably assisted by teachers Russ Webley, Eli Clarke, Same Stone and CAS Co-Ordinator Phyl Clancy. Our students noted: "We all gained a sense of giving - a wonderful feeling and one that everyone should experience; a sense of fortune that so many things that we are blessed with are taken for granted and should not be; a sense of education - we are fortunate to have had books and school as an automatic given in our lives; a sense of fortune that through the lottery of life we have been born with many advantages that so many do not have; knowledge that many things are easy for us - we can go to the shops and buy new clothes and shoes and we have more than one pair!"
