Nigel Lloyd fund
This Fund was started as a memorial to Nigel Lloyd, brother of the founder of The Changarawe Project, Carolyn Walford.
The aim was to provide educational support for the many orphaned children passing through the Zawadi School whose guardians or surviving families had great difficulty providing for the extra children in their care when they moved into primary or secondary school. The definition of an orphan in Tanzania is a child who has lost one or both parents. There is no state aid for widows.
When they are taken into the Nigel Lloyd Fund, the very first things they are given are a mattress, bed-sheets and a mosquito net. The fund provides all the accessories needed to enable a child to attend school, starting with uniform, shoes and a school bag, plus books, pens and pencils and so on. School fees are paid at secondary school level, and those who fail to get into secondary school at 14 are given vocational training.
Of the children selected first priority is given to those moving into primary school from the Zawadi School, and any extra places available after that are evenly divided between the most needy orphans in the 5 primary schools in and around Changarawe village which take Zawadi children. The selections are made by a small committee comprising welfare staff from The Changarawe Project plus representatives from the Muslim and Christian communities in the village.
10 children were enrolled in June 2005 followed by a further 15 in January 2006, and following a substantial donation 10 more in March 2006. Since then 25 children have been added annually. At this time – April 2009 – we have 108 supported children of whom 22 are at secondary school. Two children have now left the scheme following vocational training.
As well as educational support, the project nurse checks their health every month and they are visited individually by the Orphan Welfare Officer. They have a fortnightly ‘Nigel Club’ gathering at the Zawadi School where they have a nutritious meal and a chance to socialize together and are given an allocation of soap and a quantity of enriched flour to take home.
The Nigel Lloyd Fund also supports ‘The Bibi Club’, which has its own page on the web-site.
The fund is partly supported through interest from an endowment fund and the rest through regular donations in the form of standing orders or fund-raising events.
