Here all is busy with the sudden arrival of two volunteers – Layla from Australia arrived last Thursday and went down to Nazareth on Saturday to get orientated before starting work on Monday. It was an enormous relief to have a volunteer since we had almost given up getting anyone for the Christmas period thus was a tremendous surprise to find that Antonia ( another Australian ) was also interested in volunteering for a month meaning that once again we have two volunteers – an excellent number with two schools otherwise the one person is a bit stretched ! We look forward to her arrival in the middle of the night tonight ( the flight always seem to come in the middle of the night which does make us all a bit disoriented the next day at my day job ! – however, it is more than worth it ! )
One person has come up with a wonderful idea of unique Christmas presents this year and although it is late in the day, I hope that some people will be interested ! – the idea is to give gift certificates of things for English Alive rather than material goods ! – as you know, we are unable to issue our own certificates since the internet is so slow ( and so expensive with the use of the internet cafĂ© ! ) however if you wish to purchase something then we can send you some photographs of the school/ children that you can attach to your card explaining your gift – hope that some people are interested in these alternative Christmas gifts and give something a little more meaningful this year :
Our present list includes :
School uniform – 10 dollars
School shoes ( rather than the flip-flops tied together with string ) – 11 dollars
Set of 6 plastic cups for pupils to use at break/ lunchtimes rather than the yoghurt pots currently used – 3 dollars
Set of 12 pencils – 1 dollar
Transportation for the pupils to get to the school – 4 dollars a month
Set of 12 coloured pencils – 2 dollars
Box of chalk – 2 dollars
Tape machine - 28 dollars
Video player – 110 dollars
Set of textbooks for a pupil – 5 dollars
To purchase one of these gifts you can :
Pay by PayPal ( stephanddawit@yahoo.co.uk )
Put money in the English Alive Account in the UK :
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