MAGDALEENTJIE'S PRE PRIMARY SCHOOL
KAC adopted this school as their project about a year ago, after Magdalena came to visit Millicen Seela, the Director of Knysna Aids Council. The Council always being keen to help those in need, in particular children, Millicent decided to visit the school and meet the children. She was very moved by the project and recognized how much help the school needed. Some children at the school are orphans while others are not looked after by
their families. This project brings children together, gives them the opportunity to receive one meal a day and also to learn. However many families couldnt pay the children's school fees but these children kept coming for the meals. Magdalena could never turn a hungry child down but she was struggling with funds. This is what brought her to Knysna Aids Council.
KAC decided to help the school by bringing food, school equipment, etc. (Please see article below - "Knysna Aids Council Share The Bounty").
Now a year later, KAC is sponsoring bursaries for children and providing the school with vegetables and bread on a weekly basis.
There has also been various international donors helping the school. For example Mr. Frost came from Germany on holiday to Knysna and visited the project. He met a little boy who shares the same birthdate as him and decided to "adopt" this child. The lucky boy now has all his school fees paid for and Mr. Frost makes sure he has everything he needs such as
clothes, food and toys. He also visits the boy when he comes to Knysna and spends time with him.
A group of Irish donors have also been extremely hard-working and generous and brought big smiles to Magdalena's and the chidlren's faces. Working alongside Knysna Rotary, these Irish fundraisers have managed to raise money to build two news classrooms. Seeds were also donated for the garden and now there is a flourishing vegetable path in the school's front garden. This group of Irish people also raise funds at home in Ireland, to assist with valuable pre-school education of children.
The Council is also working in conjunction with other international sponsors. John Moore and Rob Adams from the UK came to visit the project while on holiday in Knysna and decided to sponsor the school. They are now continuously raising money in the UK to help these children. They have made a promise to sponsor these children as long as possible and funds are currently sent down twice a year to KAC, which goes straight to helping the
school. Recently, some funds have helped to repair the school's floor. (Please see article below - "Needy Knysna Kids Get Foreign Helping Hand")
Magdalena Moos is extremely happy to be working with the Council. She is the principal of the school but also works as a volunteer counselor and trainer on behalf of Knysna Aids Council at various places, including the Police Station. She is helping the Council and the Council is helping her, and this shows the power of networking says Millicent Seela.
Article published in Knysna-Plett Herald, 5 October 2005
Knysna Aids Council share the bounty
Knysna Aids Council recently launched an exciting project, the Bounty Express, which entails regular departures to Madgaleentjie's Pre-Primary school in Concordia with collections of donated school playground equipment, office supplies and kid's furniture.
The Bounty Express also delivers fruit and vegetables generously donated by Fruit and Veg City and bread courtesy of Knysna Spar. These donations ensure that 60 pupils at the school receive a nutritious lunch each day.
But the pre-primary school is in great need of child-sized tables and chairs, new or used toys, and people with building skills who will donate their time.
Needy Knysna Kids Get Foreign Helping Hand
(from The Herald, Thursday February 16 2006)
By Brett Adkins
Garden Route Bureau Chief
A large group of Knysna children whose families have been affected by HIV/AIDS has been taken under the wing of concerned donors from Britain, Germany and the U.S., who have strong ties with the Garden Route.
Last week, the donors -- who are working through the Knysna AIDS Council -- visited the school which is in one of Knysna's poorest areas, to meet the staff and the children they are helping.
John Moore and Rob Adams of Northampton in England got involved in the project almost a year ago. "We've been visiting the Knysna and Sedgefield area for six or seven years -- sometimes coming out a couple of times a year -- and have always found it so hospitable. So we decided we wanted to put something back," said Moore.
He said they had read about the work of the Knysna AIDS Council on the council's website.
Through the council's director, Millicent Seela, they had looked at three projects with which the council was involved and had identified Magdaleentjie Pre-Primary as the institution they would best be able to help.
"We became involved during our last summer in the UK and managed to rally together 20 to 25 family members and friends for the fund-raising."
Moore said an initial sum of R7,000 was raised and currently he and Adams's pledge was to provide R100 per child per month.
Moore and Adams are sponsoring 22 children, while the Grone family of St. Louis, Missouri, in the US is sponsoring 10.
Part-time resident of Knysna Elke Frost, of Lippstadt in Germany, and a friend are sponsoring two children.
Moore said they were highly impressed with what was happening at the school and especially with the work of Magdalena Moos who operates it. "She is a real inspiration and is doing such excellent work."
KAC adopted this school as their project about a year ago, after Magdalena came to visit Millicen Seela, the Director of Knysna Aids Council. The Council always being keen to help those in need, in particular children, Millicent decided to visit the school and meet the children. She was very moved by the project and recognized how much help the school needed. Some children at the school are orphans while others are not looked after by
their families. This project brings children together, gives them the opportunity to receive one meal a day and also to learn. However many families couldnt pay the children's school fees but these children kept coming for the meals. Magdalena could never turn a hungry child down but she was struggling with funds. This is what brought her to Knysna Aids Council.
KAC decided to help the school by bringing food, school equipment, etc. (Please see article below - "Knysna Aids Council Share The Bounty").
Now a year later, KAC is sponsoring bursaries for children and providing the school with vegetables and bread on a weekly basis.
There has also been various international donors helping the school. For example Mr. Frost came from Germany on holiday to Knysna and visited the project. He met a little boy who shares the same birthdate as him and decided to "adopt" this child. The lucky boy now has all his school fees paid for and Mr. Frost makes sure he has everything he needs such as
clothes, food and toys. He also visits the boy when he comes to Knysna and spends time with him.
A group of Irish donors have also been extremely hard-working and generous and brought big smiles to Magdalena's and the chidlren's faces. Working alongside Knysna Rotary, these Irish fundraisers have managed to raise money to build two news classrooms. Seeds were also donated for the garden and now there is a flourishing vegetable path in the school's front garden. This group of Irish people also raise funds at home in Ireland, to assist with valuable pre-school education of children.
The Council is also working in conjunction with other international sponsors. John Moore and Rob Adams from the UK came to visit the project while on holiday in Knysna and decided to sponsor the school. They are now continuously raising money in the UK to help these children. They have made a promise to sponsor these children as long as possible and funds are currently sent down twice a year to KAC, which goes straight to helping the
school. Recently, some funds have helped to repair the school's floor. (Please see article below - "Needy Knysna Kids Get Foreign Helping Hand")
Magdalena Moos is extremely happy to be working with the Council. She is the principal of the school but also works as a volunteer counselor and trainer on behalf of Knysna Aids Council at various places, including the Police Station. She is helping the Council and the Council is helping her, and this shows the power of networking says Millicent Seela.
Article published in Knysna-Plett Herald, 5 October 2005
Knysna Aids Council share the bounty
Knysna Aids Council recently launched an exciting project, the Bounty Express, which entails regular departures to Madgaleentjie's Pre-Primary school in Concordia with collections of donated school playground equipment, office supplies and kid's furniture.
The Bounty Express also delivers fruit and vegetables generously donated by Fruit and Veg City and bread courtesy of Knysna Spar. These donations ensure that 60 pupils at the school receive a nutritious lunch each day.
But the pre-primary school is in great need of child-sized tables and chairs, new or used toys, and people with building skills who will donate their time.
Needy Knysna Kids Get Foreign Helping Hand
(from The Herald, Thursday February 16 2006)
By Brett Adkins
Garden Route Bureau Chief
A large group of Knysna children whose families have been affected by HIV/AIDS has been taken under the wing of concerned donors from Britain, Germany and the U.S., who have strong ties with the Garden Route.
Last week, the donors -- who are working through the Knysna AIDS Council -- visited the school which is in one of Knysna's poorest areas, to meet the staff and the children they are helping.
John Moore and Rob Adams of Northampton in England got involved in the project almost a year ago. "We've been visiting the Knysna and Sedgefield area for six or seven years -- sometimes coming out a couple of times a year -- and have always found it so hospitable. So we decided we wanted to put something back," said Moore.
He said they had read about the work of the Knysna AIDS Council on the council's website.
Through the council's director, Millicent Seela, they had looked at three projects with which the council was involved and had identified Magdaleentjie Pre-Primary as the institution they would best be able to help.
"We became involved during our last summer in the UK and managed to rally together 20 to 25 family members and friends for the fund-raising."
Moore said an initial sum of R7,000 was raised and currently he and Adams's pledge was to provide R100 per child per month.
Moore and Adams are sponsoring 22 children, while the Grone family of St. Louis, Missouri, in the US is sponsoring 10.
Part-time resident of Knysna Elke Frost, of Lippstadt in Germany, and a friend are sponsoring two children.
Moore said they were highly impressed with what was happening at the school and especially with the work of Magdalena Moos who operates it. "She is a real inspiration and is doing such excellent work."
Sponsors from UK, America and Germany:
Alistair Anderson, Rob Adams, Jack Grone, Elke Frost, John Moore, Tom Gormley and David Colegrove
Alistair Anderson, Rob Adams, Jack Grone, Elke Frost, John Moore, Tom Gormley and David Colegrove
Thirty-four children who attend Magdaleentjie Pre-Primary School in Concordia are now benefiting from their sponsors, whose personal donations and fund-raising activities overseas are ensuring that they have uniforms, school supplies, toys and hot meals, and that their school fees are paid.