Barnes Primary and Rusuzumiro School partnership
Established in 2009, we work together to foster strong cultural links, share good practice between our schools and improve educational standards.
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Barnes and Rusuzumiro School partnership in numbers (March 2021)
- 2,500 school lunches
- 1 school library with four bookcases
- 1 washroom building for girls with sick bay and toilets
- 1 retaining wall
- 8 new toilets
- connection to mains electricity supply to light school classrooms
- delivery of 450 new books from Book Aid International from Kigali
- Over a 1,000 health insurance cards
- 3 lightening rods
- 14 in-classroom library corners with books
- 860 school uniforms
- 200 items of sports kit from National Tennis Association
- 300 sharpeners
- 300 erasers
- 243 lunch plates
- 1,200 pencils
- 10 footballs and some bouncy balls
- 1 sewage pump system
- teacher training resouces
- dedicated library classroom
- TV
- 1 mobile science lab
- 1 photocopier
- printer toner cartridges
- 2 laptops
- 2 iPads
- repointing brick walls in classrooms
- numeracy, science & literacy resources
- 1 projector and screen
- 4 mobile phones
- 2 new ICT “Smart” Classrooms
- 100 chairs and tables for SmartClassroom
- 2 library book cases