Mac Ha, located 7 km from Sapa town in Northern Vietnam, is the most impoverished area of the Sapa region. There are over 1,000 Black H'mong ethnic minority people living in and around Ma Cha village. Sapa Rooms supports the 120 children in the school from kindergarten to 5th grade. Our long term focus is to continue to solely support the Ma Cha school so these children are able to have a more comfortable environment in which to learn, grow and develop. As we believe education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
Before Sapa Rooms support, most of these children had no shoes, many had no pants and they certainly had next to no school resources. Going to school in Winter for these children was and still is extremely difficult. Close your eyes and imagine for a moment what it must be like for these children to firstly walk up to 6km bare foot over rice fields to school each morning when the temperature in winter is often minus 5 degrees celsius. the children sit in cold cement class rooms with no heating while the wind whistles through the broken windows and doors.
Christmas 2009, Sapa Rooms donated USD2,500 of duck down jackets at the request of the teachers, there were 120 jackets altogether donated, one for each child. Christmas 2010 Sapa Rooms boutique hotel raised enough money to cement the schools playground to prevent the spread of disease. Each month we donate more then 300 kg of second hand clothing and school supplies which are generously donated by our guests.
Our goal is to make the following physical improvements to the School building so that the children will have a safer, cleaner, and healthier environment in which to learn. Specifically we plan to:
Construct a hand cleaning facility so the children can wash their hands, to maintain hygiene
Connect utilities to the school, the school currently has no electricity, water or gas
Build a toilet facility, the school has no toilet
Refurbish the teachers cooking and meeting room
Repair the broken windows and doors to stop the wind drafts in the mnus 5 degrees
Paint murals all over the school to make it bright and happy
Build a climbing fort for the kids to play on.
Landscape the edges of the playground with flower beds and vegetable gardens.
Update on 8 march 2011
A wonderful thing happened two weeks ago, when one of our guests, knocked on my office door and volunteered to match all contributions to the school until we reach our goal of $10,000. This has given us a welcomed burst of energy and has our entire team excited.
Thomas Foster
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I have become familiar with this project and with Pete. I’m impressed.
I hereby commit to matching any gift to the School until my total reaches $5,000.
I hope you’ll consider this carefully and feel, as I do, that it is a very worthwhile cause. |
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