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Belize
Renovation of a primary school
Project description:
San Luis Rey RC School in the village of San Antonio in Toledo district, southern Belize, is in urgent need of renovation. With some 2,500 inhabitants, San Antonio is the second largest village in the district, and the primary school not only serves as a school but also as a shelter in case of hurricanes and as a cultural center, for example for the annual “Toledo Festival of Arts and Culture“.
For more than fifty years the primary school has been educating children aged between 5 and 16 – most of them from the Mopan-Maya ethnic group, which lives mainly in this part of the country. In addition to providing basic education and encouraging independent thought, the school also aims to bring the young people up to be self-confident citizens with an awareness and appreciation of their Maya culture.
Knorr-Bremse Global Care is funding the cost of renovating the building to enable some 350 schoolchildren and 16 teachers to continue to use it both as a school and a hurricane shelter. Amongst other things, the roof, floor, ceiling and supporting pillars are being renovated and the electric cabling renewed.
Place: San Antonio village in the district of Toledo.
Status: Project start: early August 2008; scheduled project end: October 2008.
Local coordination: Honorio Rash (headmaster), Telesforo Paquiul (project manager).
Project description:
San Luis Rey RC School in the village of San Antonio in Toledo district, southern Belize, is in urgent need of renovation. With some 2,500 inhabitants, San Antonio is the second largest village in the district, and the primary school not only serves as a school but also as a shelter in case of hurricanes and as a cultural center, for example for the annual “Toledo Festival of Arts and Culture“.
For more than fifty years the primary school has been educating children aged between 5 and 16 – most of them from the Mopan-Maya ethnic group, which lives mainly in this part of the country. In addition to providing basic education and encouraging independent thought, the school also aims to bring the young people up to be self-confident citizens with an awareness and appreciation of their Maya culture.
Knorr-Bremse Global Care is funding the cost of renovating the building to enable some 350 schoolchildren and 16 teachers to continue to use it both as a school and a hurricane shelter. Amongst other things, the roof, floor, ceiling and supporting pillars are being renovated and the electric cabling renewed.
Place: San Antonio village in the district of Toledo.
Status: Project start: early August 2008; scheduled project end: October 2008.
Local coordination: Honorio Rash (headmaster), Telesforo Paquiul (project manager).
