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Spring 2010: The Girls’ Dorm is being built, and we’re working to generate the funds required to finish it! As friends of Perfect School know, we provide an education for marginalised pupils who would otherwise not be receiving a secondary school education. It is a priority to provide safety for our students as well as a proper study environment, and one of the most important things we can do is to provide a dormitory for the girls. We’ve made a good start, assisted by the funds so generously raised by our supporters (see below), and anything you can do to help us raise further funds to complete the dorm would be sincerely appreciated – especially by the girls! Here is what they have to say: “Girls’ Dormitory is important...especially for the Maasai girls because it will help us to not married in early age as per our maasai culture. Maasai (warriors) may sometimes kidnap young girls and take them...as wives. So...dormitory is very important because it will help us to get good education” – Magdalene Loy “As a girl, I know many problems we get on our way to school and back home. We are... tempted by bad men to be their lovers...They give us drive to and from school, they buy us with chips. Finally we may get pregnant in early age, infected with diseases especially HIV/AIDS and STD’s. If we will be in Dormitory all these will not happen.” – Divinity Mongi Click here to read more of the girls’ comments.	Click HERE to see the School building in December 2009, and the beginning of the girls’ dormitory building.
Autumn 2009: Fundraising by our friends in Ireland! On 3rd of May 2009, Ed, Enda, Maeve, Niamh & Sarah took part in a half marathon running from Glengarriff to Bantry to raise some money for the school (www.bayrun.ie) . Sarah emailed us to say: “We received generous sponsorship from family, friends and colleagues. We were happy to help the school after meeting Filbert as our guide on Kilimanjaro last year. We hope that the money will be of use in the building of the girls’ dormitory. We wish you every continued success with the project.” A huge THANK YOU to Sarah, her friends, and to everyone who contributed to this effort: they raised the equivalent of over £1,000 GBP which has since been received by the School to help with building the girls’ dormitory!
Summer 2007: We moved into our new premises! In 2007 we finally moved our students into the first of the new classrooms that we have built.  We still have a lot of work to do, and please contact the school if you can help in any way!  If you are outside Tanzania, and want to support the project via "Friends of Augustine Secondary School" in the UK, please email Jo for the details.
Spring 2007: Construction We have made significant progress in building the classrooms -please click on the photo for a link to see current progress. We still have a huge way to go - please contact the school if you can help in any way!  If you are outside Tanzania, and want to support the project via "Friends of Augustine Secondary School" in the UK, please email Jo for the details.
November 2006: Registration As of November 17th, 2006, Augustine Perfect Secondary School is officially registered! The registration number is S. 2415, and the school now has an account at NMB Ngarenaro Branch, ARUSHA. Please contact us for further information.
September 2006: Fundraising In Arusha, the children and staff from Perfect School held an event on the school site on 30th September 2006, and raised approx. 884,000 TZS (about $880) in donations and promises of support and materials.  CONGRATULATIONS to all concerned! Click on the photo on the right for pictures and to read about the day. In England, Sarah and Ian's Karate group did a demonstration for the Bunbury Scouts Troop, and received a kind donation of £25 (about $45) for the school. They are planning a sponsored event later in the season,  so watch this space.