Sponsorship program

A good friend of mine wrote me recently and asked about how our school sponsorship program works. I figured it was such a great question that I'd answer it on my blog in case anyone else had the same question. Here's how it works. Our school starts at Junior Kindergarten and ends at Grade 5. The government will not enable us to have Grade 6 until we are registered with them, which we are in the process of doing. Grade 6 is the first year that students must write a government exam and therefore all schools who administer this exam must be registered. I believe I mentioned that our school is entirely free for all our students. In addition, they are provided with all necessary textbooks on loan, two uniform shirts, breakfast and lunch each day. Though our partnership with Dr. Ed who runs a clinic at our school we are also able to supply them with medical attention if necessary. After students graduate from our school we continue to support them by sending them to a nearby Christian School. Our goal is to financially support our students until they graduate from secondary school. In order to suport them financially our goal is to find a sponsor for each student. The majority of our students currently have a sponsor in Canada, but we still have a significant group of students who do not yet have a sponsor. If you are at all interested in taking on this responsibility, check out CDIA's website (listed on the side of this blog) to find out more information. The students who we sponsor after grade 5 are required to come once a week to clean the school and must attend Friday night Bible Study. This teaches them responsibility and allows us to keep in touch with them and see them on a regular basis. They often stop by at other times as well to chat with us, keeping us informed of what is going on in their lives. Because they all attended our school in the past, we know them all fairly well and enjoy staying in touch with them and hearing about their lives.