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14 July 2002
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School defies terrorism
It has endured two massacres in its short history, but John Waluboine’s school for orphans in the Congo just picks itself up and starts again - with help from some generous Australians.
These include the girls at Brigidine College, St Ives, which is helping fund the school - Brigidine girls are pictured above at their recent Founder’s Day celebration wearing their fundraiser Congo T-shirts. They plan a walkathon in the spring to raise further funds for the school, which is home to 1,500 children, two-thirds of them girls.
“A child has no mother, he has no father, he has no hope; that is the big problem,” says John Waluboine, speaking of the school he founded a decade ago after selling his inheritance of 6,000 cattle. John is the grandson of a chief.
As well, as the massacres - the last one was in January - the school has also taken in hundreds of Rwandan orphans, which stretched its meagre resources to the limit, a limit that would certainly have been reached if it were not for Australian support orchestrated by retired Canberra doctor, Murray Williams.
As a result those Rwandan orphans, who arrived barely able to stagger from the lorries that brought them and looking like human skeletons, now have smooth black skin again, says John.
The school, with its ripe fields and vegetable gardens, is a tempting target in a poor country, which is one reason for the attacks.
To make a donation, contact Murray Williams on: 02 6295 6251; fax: 02 6295 6261; email: murrayw30@hotmail.com