Since Christmas 2009 my village church have been supporting my projects in Sierra Leone and each year before Christmas, I put together a photo display in the church to show what has been achieved in the past twelve months. I’ve just received a donation of £600 from the 2024 Christmas offertories which will help fund the ongoing work at the staff hostel at Westminster Community Secondary School. Since 2009 I have received a total of £6,978 from the church. Sincere thanks to all those who contributed to the Christmas offertories.

Westminster Community Secondary School

On 20th December the builders started their Christmas break and I recently sent a tranche of money so they could resume work and on Thursday16th, after the delivery of all the materials, which arrived on site late morning, they began to form the roof.

I received this photo yesterday afternoon with some of the galvanised zinc sheeting in place.

Tomorrow I am going to transfer another tranche of money so that they have adequate funds to undertake all the above work, but that will then present me with a bit of a cash flow problem, as they are currently building faster than I am fundraising. Since July 1st, the start of the Rotary year, I have generated just over £21,000, and although I have a number of people on monthly standing orders, which generates about £325, that is the only known guaranteed income. I have a number of talks planned over the coming few months, which will result in funds coming in but the amount they will generate is again a total unknown. I am exploring other ways of improving my cash flow and I am hoping that I will not have to resort to buying a balaclava!! If you want to book me for a presentation please contact me as per the details in my header.