Quarterly Newšletter, 3rd Edition

September 30th 2009 - Quarterly Newšletter, 3rd Edition

Welcome to Digicel Foundation’s third newsletter! Over the months of July, August and September the focus has been on assessing the established Community Learning Centres (CLC’s) as well as selecting and visiting new potential projects for A total of 6 primary school building projects have now been approved for funding. They will all receive the new concept kit build steel double classrooms including office space, water tanks and toilets. Construction of the first school project has started with completion planned by the end of October. The construction of the first Family Support Centre, in cooperation with the District Hospital in Maprik (Sepik Province) and UNICEF is nearing completion with the opening planned in November. A second Mobile Clinic, to be operated by Foursquare Church in the highly populated but under serviced Highlands Province of Enga, has recently been purchased with operations planned to start Last but not least, a partner and location for a second Women's Shelter have been identified. We hope to start with the actual construction by the end of October. More about these projects will follow in our next Newsletter before the end