{"id":10535,"date":"2016-03-22T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:54:14","slug":"penarth-residents-to-take-10000-lego-blocks-to-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/22\/penarth-residents-to-take-10000-lego-blocks-to-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Penarth residents to take 100,000 Lego blocks to Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/We-love-Wales.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10536\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10536 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/We-love-Wales.jpg\" alt=\"We love Wales!\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10536 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/We-love-Wales.jpg\" alt=\"We love Wales!\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>\nPENARTH residents have donated over 100,000 pieces of Lego to schools in Lesotho.<br \/>\nThe Penarth Lego Project was launched by the Penarth and District Lesotho Trust (PADLT) in February 2015, and has reached its target.<br \/>\nThe Lego is being transported by sea to Durban, South Africa, and will then be taken to the tiny landlocked country.<br \/>\nProject coordinator Jeremy Dix and his wife Rosemary will follow the delivery out to Lesotho and oversee its distribution to a number of schools and local organisations in April and May.<br \/>\nThe main beneficiary will be TY Junior Academy (TYJA), a primary boarding school in the town of Teyateyaneng. The school has had links with PADLT for over a decade.<br \/>\nMr Dix said, \u201cAll Lego and Duplo that we have collected will find its way to Lesotho and will bring countless pleasure to thousands of children and be a valuable classroom resource to help teachers deliver the National Curriculum.\u201d<br \/>\nMr and Mrs Dix will spend some time in South Africa at an organisation that trains people in the use of Lego as an educational resource. The hands-on experience of using Lego is increasingly seen as a valuable tool for engaging children in their education.<br \/>\nIn February the Rev Canon Peter Cox, of Penarth\u2019s All Saints Church, went out to the country along with his son. They spent five days there, helping to make arrangements for the arrival of the Lego and strengthening ties with the TYJA.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was easy to get the Lego together in terms of the collection, but it\u2019s been very hard to arrange transport,\u201d said Mr Cox.<br \/>\nPADLT was founded in 2005, after Mr Dix met Godfrey Kakande, a Ugandan national who had started the academy to provide housing and education for orphans in Lesotho.<br \/>\nTragically, Mr Kakande died in a road accident last year, but the new leadership of TYJA is keen to continue its partnership with Penarth, where the charity has raised around \u00a310,000 annually for the past five years.<br \/>\nMuch of the investment goes into funding building projects.<br \/>\nLesley Cox, Chair of PADLT, has been out to the country and to the school many times.<br \/>\n\u201cThe project mainly centres on the school \u2013 it\u2019s an independent school set up to meet the needs of orphans living on the street, to house and educate them,&#8221; said Mrs Cox.<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t pay the ongoing costs, but are involved in setting up and building capital projects.<br \/>\n\u201cTwo years ago, we helped them to build a library. It\u2019s used not only by the children in that school, but is a widely used community resource. We provided the books as well.\u201d<br \/>\nThe organisation also sends children from Penarth\u2019s Stanwell School out to Lesotho once every two years, where they visit the academy.<br \/>\nThe charity intends to continue its work, supporting education in Lesotho and fostering cultural understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENARTH residents have donated over 100,000 pieces of Lego to schools in Lesotho. The Penarth Lego Project was launched by the Penarth and District Lesotho Trust (PADLT) in February 2015, and has reached its target. The Lego is being transported by sea to Durban, South Africa, and will then be taken to the tiny landlocked country. 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