Our Current Appeal: Bursaries
In Zimbabwe, average life expectancy at birth is 48 years[1]. Across the world, two thirds of people who cannot read or write are women[2]."Investing in girls and women is likely to prevent intergenerational cycles of poverty and yield high economic and societal returns" Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General. From 2005-2009, only 39% of girls in Zimbabwe enrolled in secondary education[3].
For 20 years, the Friends of St James Mission and School have been funding bursaries at St James for girls who need support to undertake a secondary education. The creation of the US Dollar economy has brought stability, but it has changed the buying power of the British pound: GBP buys fewer bursaries than it used to. It costs c.$1050 USD per pupil per year to provide a full bursary for a St James secondary school student. Girls spend 4 years in the secondary school and may spend a further 2 years in the sixth form.
To date in 2018 the Friends of St James Mission and School have donated nearly £11,000 in bursaries for girls undertaking their secondary school education at St James. This was your amazing gift of hope to Zimbabwe. In order to keep on giving, and indeed to increase giving over future years, FSJMS is now launching our 20th Anniversary Appeal, to run through the course of the Zimbabwean academic year starting January 2012.
Regular support helps us plan.
We would be delighted if you feel you could make a regular donation, however small, to support the bursaries fund. Small, regular giving over months and years adds up, and helps us plan provision for the girls in receipt of bursary funding.
If you feel able to do this, please complete the standing order & gift aid forms attached below and post to the Treasurer (Rev'd Alan Butler, 3 Ashurst Road, West Moors, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 0LR).
Stuck for a present? Why not give the gift of education…
Barclays Bank: Sort Code 20-16-99
Friends of St James account: 80725765 (please add a payment reference of "Bursaries [your name]").
| Click Here for Gift Aid Declaration Form |
| Click here for Standing Order Mandate Form |
Friends of St. James Mission and School - FSJMS
Registered Charity No. 1017217
Registered Charity No. 1017217