More funds needed for school (From Tewkesbury Admag)

More funds needed for school

7:10am Thursday 24th May 2007 in News By Peggy Clatworthy

When Clare Jennings of Tewkesbury hit her £15,000 target for a new school in a Pakistan village devastated by an earthquake two years ago, she thought her fund raising job was over.

Now she has discovered that the money will only pay for five classrooms and she needs to raise another £5,000 to furnish the school, provide pupils with pens, pencils and notebooks, build toilets and an office.

She has already gone on a sponsored slim and is hoping to arrange fund raising events locally to bring in the rest of the cash she needs.

The husband and wife team who ran the original school in the village of Bagh, which was destroyed by the earthquake, has said they are happy to take over the running of the new one when it is completed.

Clare has strong links with Pakistan as she travels there regularly to buy carpets for the shop she runs in Church Street.

She used her contacts to get aid to the locals after the 2005 earthquake.