Moanoghar School, Bangladesh.
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Graham Arthurs, a doctor at Ysbyty Maelor and a Llangollen Rotarian, contacted Ysgol Rhiwabon in 2008 and asked if we would be willing to make contact with Moanoghar School.
He has visited the Rangamatti area in a charitable medical capacity, and Llangollen Rotary have sponsored several projects at the school.
Moanoghar was established in 1974 as an orphanage by the Buddhist monks and, as it became bigger and started receiving more children, a school was established in mid-1980s. The school currently has about 1100 children out of which about 650 are residential - i.e. live inside the campus in different dormitories.
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Ysgol Rhiwabon has now had a bid accepted for funding for travel to Bangladesh for this financial year. Consequently Dr. Arthurs and Mr. Leather will be visiting Moanoghar School this Easter.
It is hoped that Llangollen Rotary will soon be able to improve electricity supply and internet connectivity at Moanoghar School, sufficiently for a more reliable email link to be established. Some joint projects may then be possible, depending on our science and technology courses, and a cricket link has also been suggested.
More will be known in the summer of 2010.
Click to read the Moanoghar Brochure, and the July-Sept09 edition of the Moanoghar News Bulletin.