As per nearly every other school in the world we held a Harvest Thanksgiving and asked for fresh and dried / tinned food but also baby milk and baby items. The children dressed in mufti and we collected donations from the. We raised, N145,000 about £450.00 can you believe it! This money went to a children's hospice and will pay for 2 children to have cleft pallett corrective surgery - how fantastic is that? We took the rest of the produce to two orphanages, one in Lagos itself (couldn't take the children there for safety reasons) and one in Yaba. The orphanage in Yaba (suburb of Lagos) is run buy the Red Cross and is very clean and the children are clothed and fed, but wow so many needy children. The babies come to the orphanage as new borns- found by the side of the road and left to either die or be found, 2 of the babies were left in bin bags! there are about 50 babies under 2 in the room in the photos- no babies in the pictures didn't think it appropriate. It was a VERY sad morning, but my children were outstanding, talking to all the little ones and the staff and mixing with everyone. I was so proud. The photos of the classrooms are of Reception and Nursery. You can see the children are smiling BUT there are no resources and this is an exceptionally well run school, the "normal" Nigerian schools are worse than this.
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