The Grade one and Grade two classes at Kwasa College might have their own classrooms soon depending on the metro.
Non-profit organisation Kwasa received some funding from the Department of Social Development.
Founder reverend Sharron Dinnie is passionate about the education and needs of the children and can’t wait for the classes to be built.
For their first year they were using one of the pre-primary classes, but now that they have moved on to Grade two there is a shortage of two classrooms.
The plans are in place for the two new classrooms but the building process was stopped by the metro.
They stopped the process during the first phase of the building in October, asking for a geo-technical report.
Dinnie says this is to see if they aren’t building on dolemite.
The tests came back negative, however, the metro then requested a new floor plan.
“They asked us to submit a new plan for the cement slab before the building can continue,” she says.
This was a huge setback for them, as the plan was to accommodate these children for the first school day on January 14.
However, it has still not been passed.
Dinnie had to make a plan in the meantime as the students needed to start school.
They are currently using the church building on the premises to accommodate the two classes.
Dinnie says, as the children progress to the next grade, they have to accommodate them with another classroom.
Funds for the first phase of the building have been provided by a funding trust in the United Kingdom and the potential sale of Annalaura House in Springs.
“A grant secured from the Lafayette foundation, through St John’s in Washington DC in America, means that we could build a third classroom as well,” she said.
Her passion to help the needy started nine years ago and with 116 children aged three to six years.
She can’t wait for the metro’s response to start with the building of these classrooms.
“The children need education given to them and we need proper facilities to do so,” she says.
No comment was received from the metro.
