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mrbaggins1

DREAMS MADE REAL

Feb 08, 2012 17:20

-It costs R350 per month to provide tuition to each learner

- It costs R100 per month to buy a train ticket for the learners who stay in Soweto

- It cost R150 a month to provide each of the 140 orphaned learners with one meal a day.

The two completed classrooms cannot be fully utilized as there are no desks or chairs. Shaun Yazbek of Tshwane Hardware ( Read more... )

refugees, albert street school, field of dreams, johannesburg, jozi, paul verryn

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Field of Dreams mrbaggins1 February 9 2012, 11:39:01 UTC

As I said in the post - for me it was never something I set out to do for personal recognition. I'm privileged enough to be in a position to help, and it is a pleasure to help when you can see the difference it makes - Albert Streets banner is "Hope for the Hopeless" and realizing the hell most of these kids went through - first fleeing the country of their birth and then ending up seeking sanctuary in a church as a result of Xenophobic attacks makes walking away from it not an option.