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With effect from March 2006 Mid-Cheshire College staff now have the facility to make
charitable donations (including to ASAP) directly from the payroll.

ASAP is now a registered charity - reg. no. 1111317

Grantham College and Loughborough College are now both supporting ASAP.
Many thanks to them for joining our charity - we hope to welcome other colleges soon.

There has already been a series of fundraising initiatives at Mid-Cheshire College from staff and students in support of the ASAP program. Future events include * Car Boot Sale - March 9th 2008 (MCC Student Car Park) * Ceilidh - music and dance with The Time Bandits - date to be finalised * Sponsored 20 mile canal walk (June 2008) - Anderton Boat Lift - Middlewich and return * Music concert (MCC student bands) * a charity auction - date to be confirmed DONATIONS FOR AUCTION NOW BEING REQUESTED * Music / Quiz night - to be finalised
We will publish more news from Befole whenever we receive it. The school is in the Leribe district in the mountainous area of northern Lesotho (see map below). Please see the Befole photographs in the Gallery page.	We have now had two letters from the headmistress of Befole Primary School and also made contact by telephone (after many unfruitful attempts). In June 2005 we received the first photos from Befole (see Gallery). The following is an extract from one of the letters which describes the current situation at the school. “Befole Primary School in the mountain areas of Lesotho is an area lacking social services. Now it has a roll of 255 pupils aged from 6 to 17 years old, seven teachers all government paid, our dilapidated block housing accommodates only three upper classes 5, 6 & 7. Our furniture was damaged during the first building destruction. The rest of the pupils are conducted in the open air. We use to send them home during bad weather conditions. There is no housing for teachers, no classrooms, kitchen, storeroom, chairs for teachers, chalkboards. We have books supplied by Lesotho government. Highland Water Project promise to build us toilets so that pupils may no longer use bushes and dangers anymore. This place is so difficult. However the community is struggling very hard in road construction to enable the vehicles to reach the school. Mostly we need classrooms. Despite such handicaps the school has been doing reasonable well in the Primary School Certificate Examinations. We obtained 100% last year 2004. This school really need your financial assistance. It is very poor school indeed."
	Have your photo taken in an ASAP t-shirt. We will find a prominent position for you in our Gallery. You'll be famous! How do you get a t-shirt? Just contact ASAP - we'll sort one out for you from our vast supplies which are stored on the hand carved mahogony shelves of our cavernous clothing department.