Project Lesotho

The other day we started a project, Project Lesotho. The purpose with Project Lesotho is to raise money which we will send to Mamoeketsi Primary School in Lesotho. Our goal is to collect 14 000 NOK (around 2400 USD), the money will primary be used to set up an internetwork for Mamoeketsi Primary School. They will also use the money to buy the most basic things like paper, pencils, food and clothes.

The reason for our cooperation with Mamoeketsi Primary School is that our English teacher became friends with one of the teachers from the Primary School at a conference. The teacher from Lesotho informed about the poor economic situation and their everyday struggles at her school.  She even came to Norway to tell about her country and a project the she has set in process. As Lesotho is a very poor country and have a bad health condition, most people can’t afford going to the doctor. The population use indigenous plants as medicine instead, the only problem is that they rip up the hole root when collect plants. Therefore the indigenous plants are now endangered. The concept for the project started by teacher from Lesotho is to preserve these indigenous plants.

My English teacher though it would be nice if we could help out this Primary school in Lesotho that her friend works at. We, the students, though that was a good idea and have already arranged a collection. For now we have collected about 3500 NOK (about 600 USD), let’s just hope that we can manage to collect 14 000 NOK by March. You see, Akershus County have granted our English teacher and three students permission to fly down to Lesotho and visit Memoeketsi Primary School.