Projects

Dekpor experienced devastating flooding in May and June.  So many things were damaged, including 5 street light/electrical poles and it affected a wide area in Dekpor Yia. Two of the posts completely fell to the ground; three were left severely tilting. The electrical company shut the power.  

We are so extremely fortunate that one of our beloved sponsorship graduates is a fully-licensed electrician! We hired Benjamin and a wee crew to replace the poles, cement them in place, and to get the wires and street lights back up and running! Let there be light!

Shipments deliver JOY!

When regular classes finished for the school year, we started up our very popular vacation school.  This year the focus was on students in P5 and P6. The attended school every day for four weeks. Math and ICT. It's an amazing chance for the students to impreove their skills!

Read some of the comments from the students themselves:

I've learned about algebraic expressions, and how to do equations with fractions. I am very happy that this holiday class has taught me so much that I did not know about before. Thank you!  Kelvin A., 12 years old, Class 6

We are making monthly life a bit more comfy for our oldest girls. Kits4Girls are stuffed full of essentials to eliminate the stigma and limitations so that young women have improved health and education.

This is one HUGE undertaking that started back in 2025 with fundraising and looking for some capable volunteers in Ontario. A team of seamstresses and helpers started work early 2025 and completed the labour of love mid-2026.

It's a surprise! Truly!  When we start this page in January of each year, we never know what will end up being done! Here you will find photos of the smaller jobs and initiatives that we do this year.

March - 100 student and 2 teacher texts purchased for our JHS literacy classes. We thank Susan and Tony Anderson for this gift for our oldest students at Dekpor Basic!

May - Dekpor Yia's purple toilet facility had extensive masonry repairs and improvements to deal with erosion and diverting water

Talk about necessary!  Just take a look at the before photos of the clinic roof! Rain was pouring through. 

The old roofing sheets were badly damaged, lifted, rusting and allowing extensive rotting to the wood and ceiling underneath. Trusses had to be replaced, the fascia, and other repairs were necessary. We ordered the long roofing sheets so that the clinic will be safe for many years to come. 

Wifi in Dekpor? YES!!!

We call it "Dental Week", but the truth is, this incredible team has fine-tuned this undertaking like pros and were done after THREE very long days!  This is the SEVENTH time that we have brought in a dental team to do their work in the Dekpor Basic School library hall.

Three dentists and one dental assistant made the trek from Sogakope. Linda, Edzi, Helen and a handful of others helped with photos, organising, calling parents when necessary, and keeping students where they needed to be.

Oh, what a gift! We know that tech is the way of the future and how wonderful that we are able to provide EXTRA classes beyond the typical school hours!

We have an incredible computer lab and making the most of it benefits everyone. Thanks to the annual donation made by former outreach volunteer, Alan Lawrence, we happily have hired one of our ICT grads to run computer classes every late afternoon once regular classes have finished.  This is the 6th year that we have been fortunate enough to do this!