Tofo School Project background

The Tofo School project came about as a partnership between the Scott Wilson Millennium Project (a registered charity) and Quest, an organisation who already operates in the village. The purpose is to build a school for around 250 children in a village outside Tofo. Three teams of volunteers will work with the school during three months (one month each) in May, June and July. The project has now just started.
We have started the school building from scratch. There is now a temporary school in place and tuition is located to three straw huts packed with children. The children are sitting on the floor and learn writing partly by writing in the sand. The new school will be built on the same piece of land and we have lots of curious children around on their breaks. The walls in the straw huts have large gaps in order to not make it too dark for a classroom so they will not be suitable for tuition during the rain period. However, they should work fine until we have completed the new building.