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Indian Church School Gets Solar
posted (February 4, 2013)
In Indian Church Village - their concern is not so much about the far flung reaches of the border as it is with electricity. The remote village behind Shipyard in the Orange Walk District has no electricity - which makes schooling difficult for the young villagers. There are 46 of them in the Indian Church Government School - and now, with funding from the BNE Trust, they have solar panels that provide electricity.

The project was formally launched today and the principal explained why it is important.

Eukemio Magara, Indian Church Gov't School
"This project here is very a generous and valuable gift. When I say that, it's because this area like in Indian Church where electricity is remote, so we welcome that because the children are the ones who benefit the most. This solar system will give us that opportunity to move on with their education as a whole and that means that the children will be better educated in a way and their motivation is very high when it comes to this system."

"It has a great impact on these children because actually they are requesting from us to probably help them during the night also which this is a very great from them because at home some of them have electricity but they use generator which is very expensive, so here at school we can have them during the day and the night and so this creates something very special for them."

"It was raining, we had the supervisor from the Ministry of Education, they close the windows and we never knew that we had electricity, so the supervisor went and switch it on and the children started to jump 'we have light.' They were very happy. That means the children were enlightened for what they have."

In the last five years, the BNE Trust has invested SIX million dollars.

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