Education - Nursery, Primary & Secondary

Future Hope Montessori School

When we started our very small nursery school two years ago we never dreamt we would be soon be running a 6 classroom Montessori School, in its own grounds, complete with dining hall, kitchen, library, loo block, school office and store. It has been a roller-coaster of a time!

We are now looking to form links with other charities that sponsor bright, impoverished children through Secondary School and beyond. We have also had approaches from kind, generous people who want to start a scholarship scheme, which would be brilliant. We are working on this one to ensure our best students have a guaranteed future.

One of the major differences the school has made is the good, nutritious food we provide. Feeding the children two meals a day makes a huge difference to their health, as many live in pitiful circumstances hovering just above starvation level. Orphaned and lodging with guardians who have virtually nothing themselves most of these children go to bed hungry every night of the week – the food for each child costs £10.00 per month and provides two meals a day. Could you sponsor a child for £120 p.a. to keep body and soul together.....it is after all far less than a weekly supermarket shop in the UK! Each child is fed 365 days a year and we operate a 'Holiday Camp' during the holidays to provide a safe-haven, fun and source of food.

Uniforms are a big expense as we provide each child with shorts & T shirts x 2, a sweater, underwear, flip-flops, sports kit and a raincoat. The total outlay per child is £20.00 p.a. They have nothing else to stand up in and during weekends and holidays come to school in what can only described as rags.