Today, Jason and I found out about the COCO Charity Foundation. This name stands for Comrades Of Children Overseas, it is a charity that helps children by teaching them about education and supplying them with a safe and a suitable place to learn. Today we were privileged enough to be able to meet a head teacher from a school in Tanzania Oswin, he told us about what he does in an interview:

Hello I would like to begin by asking about how the foundation came about and what it is?

It was founded by steve crom and it is a charity to help children across East Africa.

That’s very interesting, so what kind of income does the charity have and roughly how much is turned into profit ?

£430 thousand is the income and about 45 thousand is kept in reserve.

Well those digits are something,but how does the money get invested into helping children?

We work in partnership with the HOJA Project COCO fund and HOJA direct  what is being spent.

How has this foundation helped your school and you?

Well my school has been a “Bagla Dagala” but thanks to COCO it is now a Kubwa school.

I hear from a fellow student that you are an ex-Chantry student.So how did you get into charity work?

I like to help people and was good at Geography so that helped.

Finally, what is your overall opinion about this foundation?

I hope that one day we won’t be needed, but I think that as long as charities have a good cause, it is alright!

They have a brilliant moto of listen, learn, sustain. These people are doing a brilliant job of improving our world. All of the children want to go to school in east africa and they are so grateful. Thank you to Lucy and Oswin who came in and spoke to us!

By Victoria and Jason (7S and 7W)