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Key Milestones

  • 1995 - Bebor Model Nursery/Primary School is founded in Bodo City, Rivers State, Nigeria with 1 teacher and 4 pupils.

  • 2000 - The International Friends Committee is formed and begins raising funds for the school.

  • Jan. 2001 Our first round of funding is delivered to the school.

  • March 2002 The International Friends Committee forms a long-term partnership with the Indianapolis-based children’s charity The Timmy Foundation

  • June 2002 Scott and Tijen Pegg are made honorary chiefs in the village of Bodo City.

  • March 2003 The school expands to a second village, Bane, which is about 30 minutes drive from Bodo City.

  • June 2004 Dr. Chuck Dietzen, founder and president of the Timmy Foundation, was made an honorary chief in the village of Bane.

  • August 2005 Chief Prof. Scott Pegg Road dedicated in Bodo City. See photos in the Life in Bodo section.

Bebor Model Nursery & Primary School
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Baridule Kinane standing by a locally made helicopter
during the 5th Anniversary and Graduation Ceremony
on July 14, 2001.

Students in a traditional fishing boat along the riverfront, Bodo City.

 

"Politicians and celebrities are often enamored of 'clean water' - but less keen on posing next to the latrines that must be built to keep water that way.  A few frank and indignant souls are trying to help." - book review of Rose George, The Big Necessity, The Economist, October 11, 2008.

 

Procession at the school's graduation ceremony, June 2004.

One measure of success is that this mom brings her two kids to our school every day on an "okada" or motorcycle taxi from two villages away.

Having class inside the newly finished BMN/PS 5 classroom school building in June 2001. The scene depicted in this photo was made possible through your generous donations.

 

Another measure of success: Scott Pegg with members of the Bebor Ambassadors, an alumni group of students who have graduated from the primary school in Bodo City and gone on to various secondary schools, July 2009.

Members of the Timmy Foundation delegation visiting the Bodo City Council of Chiefs, June 2004.

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