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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.

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Michelle DeYoung, Tijen Pegg and members of the Tijen Pegg Mothers Association in Bane, June 2004.
Scott Pegg with teachers and administrators from the Bane school, June 2009.

 The school's first classroom building, built before we started helping them in 2003.


Having class inside the first classroom building, June 2002.

Scott and Tijen Pegg with teachers, students and staff at the Bane school, June 2002.

 
 The second classroom building built entirely with our funds, under construction in January 2004.

 Scott Pegg and the late paramount ruler of Bane opening the second classroom building in June 2004.

Teachers and members of the Tijen Pegg Mothers Association posing in front of the newly finished building, June 2004.

 

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

Work starting on the third and final classroom building in August 2005.




The third and final classroom building under construction in August 2006.  Note the rust-proof roof.

Putting the cement floor in the final classroom building, June 2007.

 The third and final classroom building, completely finished in July 2009.

 

Security bars and windows on the final classroom building in Bane, July 2009.

The two Bane buildings with the black tanks for the school's borehole for drinking water above and behind them.  This borehole was generously funded entirely by our partners at Stepping Stones Nigeria.

A local community woman collecting water at the community taps established to provide free drinking water from the Bane school's borehole.

The school in Bane now has a parade band.  It is called the Jim Wark Half Century Band in honor of one of our contributors' 50th birthday.

 

 

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