TULLIBODY Primary school, St Bernadette’s RC, handed over a cheque for £1,100 to former First Minister Jack McConnell to donate to a school in Malawi.
Over three years pupils have now raised around £2,600 for Nankwala Catholic School in Malawi by doing sponsored obstacle races and through selling healthy food in the tuck shop. Image
Links were formed with their Malawian peers after Father Titus Bayani came to visit St Bernadette’s and tell them about the school in Africa which has over 1,000 pupils and only 11 members of staff.
Headteacher, Mr McMonagle, said: “I was very pleased when we raised £750, so to have raised £1,100 this year is fantastic.
“Father Bayani’s visit has helped to increase the children’s awareness of the poverty in Malawi and they have been able to see how their fundraising efforts can make a huge difference.
“It has also made us all realise how fortunate we are. I am delighted by our pupils effort.”
Before turning to politics Jack McConnell was a maths teacher at Lornshill Academy in Tullibody and said: “I am delighted to return to the place I know well.”
He is set to become the next British High Commissioner to Malawi in 2009 and first started trying to establish links between Scotland and the African country during his term as First Minister.
He said: “My first priority as first minister was to look after the interests of Scotland and inspire lives, but I believed we should give to the rest of the world as well.
“Given how small a school this is it is quite some achievement what these pupils have done and we can see from photos of the school in Malawi how it has blossomed.
“If Children in Need could get the everybody to raise the same amount as each child in
St Bernadette’s has then they would make over £750 million.”
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