Thursday 14 January 2016

October to December Newsletter

Christmas/ New Year Party

Like every year, MOET hosted a party this year as well:

...a party  for its learners in the afternoon of 23rd December:


with cooking, dancing and eating rice and meat  for all students!    
                    

...a party for its staff in the evening and night of 23rd December, which was funded by the teachers:


... and a party for the former MOET and now secondary school students on 30th of December:




ELMA workshop

In November, MOET Director Patterson Majonaga and accountant Josephine Saidi took part in a 3-day workshop offered by ELMA in Lilongwe. The topics of the workshop was mainly financial management.


In the picture, you can see a group photo of all of the participants inside Crossroads Hotel.



Guardians


The picture above shows a meeting of the guardians. In this meeting they were taught about the sustainable use of bicycles for day students.





Donations

Donation by Sunbird Nkopola Lodge:
This December, the staff of Sunbird Nkopola Lodge - the place where the famous Lake Of Stars festival takes place every year - was visiting MOET School.


As shown in the first picture, the General Manager was bringing a large donation of books to the MOET Learners. After finishing the donation, they took some time to walk around the MOET grounds and to appreciate the irrigation system in the second picture.


As a gesture of thankfulness, one MOET child was presenting a speech to the donors.





This donation was even covered by both of the nationwide newspapers of Malawi: The Nation and the Daily Times.


Even more donations:


A picture of the “tree nursery”, which is funded by ELMA.


Mrs. Joyce Jaffu, a local author from Mangochi donated some of her books to the MOET learners.


Mr. Majonanga is presenting a donation to the chairperson of Tiyanjane support group from Hillary Hergaty of Christian Aid Relief Trust.


One of the helpers of MOET, the Marine Institute of Canada donated money which was used for the electrification of Standard 8 classroom for night studies and for the purchase of uniforms for all children at the school.



Every day life at MOET

Busy times in MOET library: head teacher and volunteer Johannes from Germany in action


Adventist Youth from Blantyre is visiting MOET and learns about Permaculture