Last year, toilets - this year, solar lamps.
Hay2Timbuktu are fundraising this year to provide solar powered lamps which will be charged at the secondary schools so that students can take them home to do their homework. Girls in each school will be trained to maintain the lamps in good order. The fundraising is already off to a good start with some money from Hay Festival and a quiz night. There will be a dinner with a speaker in the early autumn.
The Hay2Timbuktu AGM will be on 27th September, which is also Mali Independence Day, and there will be news of the girls who are being supported by Hay2Timbuktu's current project, helping with school equipment and remedial lessons. Also in September there will be a bursary available to a girl from each of the partner schools in Timbuktu to start a midwifery course. Two trustees of Hay2Timbuktu will be travelling to Mali to monitor the project and to take the good wishes of the people of Hay with them.
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