Buy bricks for an Indian school - latest progress
Jafar Pur school as it was in 2007
Jafar Pur school now in 2010 - you can see the two new classrooms on the left
Progress report - 2010
Thanks to our generous donors, we were able to send £2,000 to Jafarpur in 2009 and a further £1,000 in 2010. As a result, the Jafarpur High School was been able to build up two basic open-sided shelters into two complete classrooms and the Jafarpur villagers began the process of applying for intercollege status which means that their children will be able to study locally up to the age of 18.
Progress report - November 2011
The money raised by VRI has now built three complete classrooms, and a fourth is under construction.
Lizzie sees it for herself
A volunteer, Lizzie, who visited the project in 2010, says:
"During my visit to Amarpurkashi this February (2010) I was taken to visit the school in Jafar Pur. I had heard about the online campaign to donate bricks to build this school.
I obviously hadn't interpreted the campaign literally enough! On the site there were four buildings lined up in a row. The building on the right had four walls. As did the building next to it. The third building had three walls. The front wall graduated slowly up from the ground so that the teacher was fully enclosed and the pupils at the back sat in broad daylight.
The pupils in the fourth building were separated from the elements only up to their knees- sitting behind a small wall rather than in a building! As my eyes wandered to the left I realised the fifth class were sitting on the grass. In a pile next to the building sits fifty or so bricks, eagerly waiting to complete their piece of the puzzle.
Each brick really does count. And they are being used daily to build this school. There are few donations a person can make which are so apparently and directly effective."