Hungerford zumba night boosts funds for Sierra Leone school

About 50 people turned up at Herongate Leisure Centre for the evening of dance and fitness, hosted by Bee Jacks, a dance and fitness instructor who teaches locally and including at Hungerford and Herongate Leisure centres, Energie Fitness, Greenacre Leisure, the Donnington Valley Hotel, Newbury and Parkwood Leisure, Lambourn.
The fundraiser was in aid of building a roof for the 300-pupil, Wallai Tombo Honor Services Community Primary School, situated in a fishing village about 30 miles from the capital of Freetown, where Bee Jacks was born (December 2012 Out and About article refers).
“I was very pleased with how the evening went and I am very grateful to all the people who supported this event and are still donating money to raise a roof on the Wallai Tombo Honor Services Community Primary School, we need to raise £5000 to get the roof erected and this is a very good start,” said Bee Jacks.
The money was raised from ticket sales and a raffle, with raffle prizes donated by Bee Jacks’ pupils and local businesses and took the overall total to £1,300.
Sierra Leone is still recovering from a civil war which ended in 2002, with many children denied a basic education, whose parents cannot afford school fees:
“The schools themselves are desperately in need of funding, with some barely having adequate buildings, fresh drinking water or the simplest of learning materials,” he said, adding donations were welcome:
“However small the amount of the donation it goes a long to helping the children of Tombo get a roof on their school,” he said.
Further fundraising zumba evenings are planned, meanwhile donations can be made directly into the project’s bank account at Barclays Bank, Sort Code: 20-59-14 Account Number: 63754758. For more information about the project visit www.Beejacks.co.uk.