Africa comes to Brisley

Children and Parents were thrilled to welcome Melissa to their weekly Celebration Assembly. The assembly celebrates by noting Birthdays, House Points, Star Pupils of the week and other achievements. On this occasion we were also delighted to present Melissa with a cheque for £104 for the Melissa Trust.

Helen Savory, Secretary of the Friends, presents a cheque to Melissa

We raised money by having The Melissa Trust as our charity at the Fakenham Christmas Tree Festival in December - look back through our news items to find more details of this and to see our tree. Thanks to the children and Friends of Brisley who all helped decorate the tree, the sum of £104 was collected. The Trust is very special in that whatever money is donated is multipled by four through European match funding. Our money raised means £416 will be given to help people in Burkino Faso farm the land throughout the year, rather than just at certain times and have a supply of water in times of drought. The project is also aimed at bringing solar energy technology to villages to dry produce.

The older children heard how villages are developing so they can grow crops and played a game to see if they could do this and decide where to locate their village. Click here to listen to Melissa....                                  Melissa says Thank you to Brisley School

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