Dear friends, as you can see for yourselves, we are very busy with the construction of the new technical secondary school. The first phase of construction consists of: 11 classrooms with toilets, two rainwater reservoirs (an underground tank with a capacity of 500 cubic metres, and a surface one with a capacity of 100 cubic metres)...

As we’ve already written, Ivo Mlakić, a very experienced tailor from Bosnia, had come to Kivumu to share some of his practical knowledge and experience with the students and teachers of the tailoring section in our school. Soon after his arrival, Ivo was joined by Valerie Kae Ken, the Canadian fashion designer, who, among numerous...

When I came to enroll in Padri Vjeko Vocational Training Centre, many of my future schoolmates looked at me with a smile on their faces. Because, unlike most of the girls, who decided to enroll in the tailoring course, I was standing in the line for enrollment in the building course. The boys looked at me in astonishment and laughed...

We have turned Kivumu into a big construction site! Aside from the school that is being built at full speed, these days we’ve also begun digging reservoirs next to the future school which will serve as huge water containers. Well, yes. That’s how things work here. We don’t have a water-supply pipeline, so we have to take care of everything...

My idea of travelling to a faraway place didn’t include visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the exotic Taj Mahal, or getting a chance to admire the lights of New York. Rather, I was thinking of a journey which would take me away from quarrels with my family, love problems, a vague financial future and my conflicting principles and beliefs that...