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Dear All at The Rotary Club of Ryde Inc.,

Thank you so much for your continued support of The School of St Jude through your sponsorship of Ms Christina Gabriel!

 As Ms Christina’s generous sponsor/s, we hope that you’ve enjoyed hearing directly from our students just how much your contribution is appreciated. Your sponsorship of Ms Christina, who is teacher of Standard 1 Science classes at our Moshono Lower Primary campus, supports both her and her fellow St Jude’s teachers as they work hard to educate Tanzania’s future leaders.

Life at The School of St Jude is continuing to thrive; we now educate nearly 1,500 students spread across three amazing schools, two boarding campuses and employ over 340 local Tanzanian staff.  All this would not be possible without the enormous contribution and generosity of supporters like you!

We hope you will enjoy the attached 2011 Update about Ms Christina, with news including her latest interests and opinions on life.  Also attached is a Teacher Sponsorship FAQs document, for all the details of supporting a teacher at The School of St Jude.

Thank you again for your incredible ongoing support of Ms Christina, and ultimately for standing with us in our Fight against Poverty!

Kind regards

Julie

Julie Luxton
Sponsor Relations Coordinator
The School of St Jude
Fighting Poverty through Education
Email: sponsorrelations1@schoolofstjude.co.tz

Website: www.schoolofstjude.co.tz
PO Box 11875, Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa
+255 686 049 142 or +255 755 106 058

Dear President Allen,

Thanks you so much for your response. My husband Ben and I have fond and precious memories of the kind hospitality of Les and Shirley in their home when we had represented PRIP Royce and Jean Abbey in 2 other Districts besides your District . At that time then PRIP Huge Archer was trying to save funds for Rotary so RI Representatives like us were given assignments in multiple districts. We were given 3 in a row in Australia and although it was a bit hectic, we didn't mind at all as we met so many Australians who became our friends.

I am attaching an article I wrote on Polio Plus and in Angeles City, where it all started, this is synonymous with PDG Les & Shirley Whitcroft as they stipulated that the US$250,000 be earmarked for the Polio Plus Campaign in the Philippines. They traveled all the way from Australia to witness this historic launching of the first official Polio Plus NID (National Immunization Day) which was the scheme eventually followed all over the developing countries in the world in the years to come.

We, in Angeles and the Philippines will forever be grateful for their generosity in selecting the Philippines as the first recipient from the $US250,000 they donated for the Polio Plus Campaign. It would be great if you could convey to PDG Les our belated condolences on the demise of Shirley. She was such a sweet and lovely lady. Please tell him that we were also in Tanzania last year and visited the School of St. Jude and saw some of the classrooms that a number of Australian Rotarians donated and we're glad to know that he was one of the donors of those many classrooms. I have attached some photos of our visit to the school and below is the website I did on Rotary in Tanzania.

Please extend our best regards to PDG Les.

Cheers!

Josie

http://web.me.com/jdhenson/Site_23/Rotary_in_Tanzania.html