Dear all,

School, although we are not always in fond of going to school, we all know how important schooling is. Schooling is the basis for the rest of your life and for most people it also is the basis for their career. However as most of us also know, do not all children have the privilege of going to school, especially the young ones.

At the moment we, Yvon van Eerdt and Eline Vring, are working with the Shaw Park school. This school it located in one off the rural areas around Port Alfred. However this school starts from grade 1 on (7 years old).

The younger children either stay home alone with the female siblings, or they are sent to grade 1, when they are to young.

This lack of and Pre-school, or a Grade R, as it is called in South Africa, is causing this problem. Besides this do a lot of the children miss the basic education, like how to thy shoe lashes, how to hold a pen etc. Only 5 students out of 40 made it last year to grade 12 (the last class in Africa).

Luckily we have located the perfect building for this pre school! However the building is not in a good condition (See pictures). Together with some students we are repairing the old church into a safe pre school.

However a lot of things need to be done, and the money raised is not enough.

We would like to ask you if you can help us with raising the R10.000 (1000 Euro) needed for this.

What do you get in return for this?

• 64 children and all future children will have a basic education.

• Better educational possibilities.

• Better education and opportunities for females.

• And the result on a weblog: shawpark.reismee.nl.

You can help us and the children to donate on this account:

401884643, In name of Eline Vring, Hazerswoude Rijndijk (Dutch account).

We would also like to ask you to sent this letter to as much family and friends as possible.

Baie Dankie, Enkosi kakulu, Thank you very much, Dank u Wel!

Yvon van Eerdt, Eline Vring, and all the small children