The Star Project

UAC has big plans for the future. Their biggest being the relocation to the Buitingi school.

Currently the nursery school kids go to Jamadianle in Buea and the rest of the primary school resides at the as yet unfinished, Buitingi campus, which is located in a neighbouring village.

The Jamadianle school is where it all began, but with a rapid influx of new pupils they have been forced to rent more rooms to act as makeshift classrooms. This means that a lot of UAC's income is spent on rent instead of on materials, teachers salaries and innovative new programmes.

The classrooms are small and stuffy too, and it is a very busy part of Buea where the noise can be quite intrusive and not the best when you're trying to learn the alphabet. Also there is a mad, crabby old guy who lives in the school who shouts at all the kids, it doesn't feel like a school to me. It is temporary and i guess that every good thing must start somewhere.

By 2011, they aim to have the entire population of the school in Buitingi, including more kids from the surrounding villages attending as well.

At the moment there are 9 big, spacious classrooms built with another 11 in the pipeline. There are also plans to construct a proper fun playground for the kids, which would be superb. They also will be:

1. Larger and brighter classrooms, with Corner Room materials in each room.
2. Corner rooms packed with learning materials and a computer workstation.
3. Vocational training centre.
4. More and better toilet facilities.
4. A gardening space.
5. An office space for school administration and UAC staff.
6. A staff room.
7. A community hall.

The whole environment is will generally be far more conducive to learning and a much more peacful place to be.

It doesn't come for free however and they need assistance to buy more land and building materials.

Here is how you can help:

www.unitedactionforchildren.org

And by clicking on the star project on the right.