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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
fund-raiser 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.
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