In May / June 2021 The ZimHoustonians community raised over 1000 $ and bought books for Seruwe Primary School.
Seruwe Primary School was established 1981. It presently has an enrollment of 760 learners and a staff compliment of 20 teachers. It’s catchment area is the commercial and resettlement farms in the small town of Selous. Over the past 5 years, it’s Grade 7 examinations pass rate has been below 40 %, with last year’s being 9%. It faces serious challenges in terms of teaching resources.
Herewith the full list of subjects:
– Information Communication Technology -Visual Performing Arts
-Agriculture
-Science and Technology
-Family Religion and Heritage
-Physical Education and Mass Display
-Mathematics
-English Language
-Shona/Ndebele
The breakdown of students at Seruwe:
Grade 1 102
Grade 2 85
Grade 3 139
Grade 4 79
Grade 5 92
Grade 6 81
Grade 7 92
Each grade has two classes except for Grade 3 which has 3.
We concentrated on the 3 upper grades, and managed to buy buy 5 sets of needed texts per grade.
We worked closely with Tember Banda, the Past President of the Rotary Club of Harare Central. _*Tember Banda has been involved in the shipment of donated books from Book Aid International in the United Kingdom for the past 13 years. He has been involved with another rural library in Domboshava for the past 3 years, built with funds from a small family trust in California. He and his team will purchase the books in Zimbabwe and arrange for handover to the school.
Conclusion/Note that many school children in poor and underserved communities in rural areas in Zimbabwe lack reading books. Lack of reading books results in reduced understanding of language, literacy skills, and learning skills. Conversely, reading increases literacy skills and comprehension which is an advantage in many aspects of the journey out of poverty and to be successful in the professional world. Please help us to help Seruwe school. No contribution is too small or too big. The more money we raise, the more students we can help