Sunday, January 30
Bisate Update
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From Joseph Karama, Bisate Project Coordinator:
"I will start this update with some great tidings from Bisate school. The words below came from the Bisate School Headmaster to the Karisoke administration. Kudos to the EACEF team for all your support to the school!
'Hello!!!!!!!!!!! Our success rate has been increased this year 2011!! 78.57% in Primary 6 and 94% in Senior 3 (Ordinary Level (Tronc Commun)). So the school’s overall rate of success is 86.2%. Thank you...
Tuesday, October 26
Progress on Bisate Phase 2!
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Phase 2 of the Bisate Project, consisting of renovations to existing classrooms, is well underway.
Joseph Karama, Bisate Project Coordinator based in Ruhengeri, Rwanda recently sent these pictures of the new building reaching the halfway mark.
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Monday, September 13
Bisate Project Phase 1 Opens!
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Official Opening of Bisate Project Phase 1: (See below for pictures)
Although the new classrooms have been used since the start of the academic year in February 2010, they were officially opened on July 23rd 2010. The opening ceremony was attended by the President of EACEF, Andrew Sugrue, the Director of the Karisoke Reaserch Center, Katie Fawcett, the Acting Minister of Education and Director General for Science and Technology in the Ministry of...
Monday, September 13
Bisate Project Field Report
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SUMMARY REPORT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT TO CONSTRUCT 6 CLASSROOMS FOR BISATE SCHOOL THANKS TO THE DFGFI-EACEF PARTNERSHIP
Background
Group Scolaire de Bisate is located in Bisate Sector, Musanze District, in the Northern Province, close to the Volcanoes National Park and to the Karisoke Research Center field patrol post. It started as a primary school in 1972 with less than 500 pupils, and now it has 2,178 pupils in the...
Sunday, January 24
Bisate Classrooms Completed
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Phase One of the Bisate Project Completed
On Thursday January 14th, the six classroom block phase of the Bisate Project located outside Ruhengeri, Rwanda was completed. At the dedication, the structure was named the “Umurage” Building, meaning “legacy” in the Kinyarwanda language of Rwanda. The building is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alecia Lilly, an acclaimed primatologist who ran the African opperations for DFGFI and who served as...