OUTREACH ENDOWMENT FUND
The Church of the Mediator's Outreach Endowment Fund supports various local and international outreach efforts each year. Each month we will tell you about a different project that we support financially and ask for your prayers.
Use the Request for Funding form to seek a grant from the Outreach Endowment Fund. This form can be copied and pasted into your MS Word program (or probably any other word program you have), then filled in, saved, and sent on via e-mail to the church at mediatorec@verizon.net. Use Outreach Endowment Fund Grant Request in the subject line.
Grant #4-
2010
Lopoo School in the Diocese of Kajo Kejo
The Outreach Endowment fund of the Church of the Mediator continues to support the Loopo School in the Diocese of Kajo Kejo. Your donations are used to supplement day-to-day operations.
The Loopo primary school is one of the eight Episcopal Schools in Kajo Keji and serves children through 6th grade. The school is not a New Hope funded school and has been partially built through donations from the Actions in Truth - an organization in the UK.
The number of pupils includes 303 boys and 291 girls, for a total of 581. The number of teachers includes 6 males and 3 females, for a total of 9.
Achievements include: Building of more huts for the teachers to stay in, buying some more scholastic materials, payment of some incentives to motivate the volunteer teachers, purchase of some plates and cups for the school use, purchase of some games and sport equipment for the girls, and 12 days of Christmas gift received from the Diocese of Bethlehem.
Future plans include: Building of more huts for the teachers to stay in, building of temporary shelter and latrine for both teachers and pupils, and filling a need for more volunteer teachers.
Challenges include: The need for games and sport equipment for girls, building of the school block which remains unfinished, there is no office block for both the head teacher and staff, the scholastic materials for the school are not enough for the school to use, the need for more agricultural tools and seeds, there is no school library to keep school books, payment of incentives to motivate the volunteer teachers, and the two latrines for both the teachers and the pupils are not completed.