Maori Primary School

This rural school serves 150 families living in the six surrounding villages. Current enrolment is 350 at boy to girl ratio of 45:55. The families served by this school are subsistence farmers and farm workers who rely on farm produce income to survive.
Construction of the third classroom block has enabled accommodation of all students at the new site. Through staggered time scheduling the nine classes, which includes pre-schoolers, are now able to share the six classrooms.

Unfortunately, there was severe drought this year at Nyachuru Secondary School which resulted in a very poor harvest and insufficient maize for the lunch program. ZimKids responded to the school’s request for additional assistance by purchasing and arranging delivery of maize meal.

Maori Primary School students celebrated the arrival of boxes of new books for their library this month. This generous donation was made by Canadians Scott Wilkie and Denise Quick, to mark Denise’s retirement from a career spent as a librarian. Rural primary schools in Zimbabwe rarely have the resources to purchase library books so this donation was received with great excitement. The book selection was made by the teaching staff at Maori Primary School and the organization SchoolBooks4Africa. Scott and Denise have been donors to ZimKids for a number of different projects at the school in recent years. Thank you Scott and Denise. You are making a real difference in the lives of these children.

Maori Primary School in Mashonaland Central has now been registered by Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Education. Two furnished classroom blocks, teacher accommodation, toilets for staff and students and a drilled well and bush pump have already been completed. In addition two of the storage rooms have been converted into a library and resource centre and text books have been purchased.

The main focus for ZimKids in 2017 will be to raise funds for the third and final classroom block so that all students can attend school in a safe learning environment. This much needed school facility will serve 350 children and their families for generations to come. It will be a hub for the entire community.