YES - WE ARE REAL
Can you please help us?
When trying to decide where to send your hard-earned money where it will do the most good, you want to ensure that the need is real, legitimate, and that your money is going where it is intended and not being used to pay for trinkets, T-shirts, advertising materials, or salaries of board members and other supporting organizations.
The Holy Trinity Association is run by unpaid volunteers. We do not send out trinkets or pay large advertising firms to keep their people employed with your money. We provide your kind donation to the people who need it the most. No middlemen.
We have vetted the recipients of your funds and receive pictures, videos, newsletters, emails, and personal handwritten letters of gratitude from the people receiving this sorely needed support as proof that your generous donations are used wisely and as intended.
Below are some pictures and of things we have accomplished, such as providing clean drinking water, one 3 classroom block and one 4 classroom block buildings so the younger children can have class indoors, and pictures of some things still needed. We also have some videos of the work being done to collect materials for the construction of the teachers' residence. The children help collect stones, sand, clay for bricks, etc. The materials we gather often come from 20-30 kilometers away from the school across rural areas with no roads making travel a bit hazardous for the pickup truck we use.
Videos, narrated by Father Augustine, from 2024 of making bricks from clay and collecting rocks and sand to use in the construction of the teachers' residence. A lot of manpower and no machines other than pickup truck. In the last video you can see that they must make a trail through the fields for the truck to drive to get the stones. Some days they did not get back to the school until after midnight and often the loaded truck had to have a tire repaired or radiator constantly filled with water every 2 kilometers. They do not take their school for granted and work hard to get a good education and to grow in faith.
This is a picture of the electrification plan for bringing power to the school provided to us by the Ministry of Energy. This plan is currently the fifth priority project for the local government to accomplish.
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These six pictures show some of the preschool, elementary, and high school students this year (2023).
These pictures from 2023 show the new 4 block classroom being built from making bricks to putting on the roof to finishing the outside.
The 12 pictures below from 2022 show the new boarding facility for the school and some pictures of students and parent meetings held at the school.
Clean water from our repaired well ! Much better than walking 3/4 mile to the dirty stream to fill our 5 gal cans.
The ten pictures below show the construction of three new adjoining classrooms in Spring-Summer 2022 for some of our younger students. Now they can have classes indoors instead of under trees outside on the ground. Your kind donations are helping to make this happen.
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Prayer service of Thanksgiving for kind donations received through the U.S. Holy Trinity Association.
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School Board of Governors
Below 6 pictures are water pump repairs and new water pipe trenches being dug in late 2021
Above 3 pictures show bricks made for Multipurpose Hall and the outside and inside of unfinished buildings
Above 3 pictures show minimal solar panels installed to provide light and minimal electricity for teachers housing. We are trying to get tied into regional electric power, but we need additional funding to do so.
Above 3 pictures show the school van and some of the parts needing replacing and Sister Glory behind the wheel. The rural location and rough roads are hard on vehicles, but transportation is a necessity. The van was donated by a U.S. family. A 17-passenger van would be ideal, but the $112,000 cost is much more than we can handle alone.
Students showing thank you letters they sent us, donated uniforms and balls, and outside an unfinished classroom
Nuns providing school leadership, students attending Mass in the church building, and the front gate of the school