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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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This way to Bebor Model Nursery and Primary School, Bodo City, Rivers State, Nigeria.

A handmade sign by one of the students proclaiming his school the best in town. 

A school meeting or assembly during the spring 2009 term.

Women are an important part of the school's governance.  This photo shows Tijen Pegg and members of the Tijen Pegg Mothers' Association in Bodo, June 2002.


Members of the Tijen Pegg Mothers' Association, Bodo, June 2004.

Many kids who live nearby walk to the school.  Kids who live further out frequently travel to the school on "okadas" or motorcycle taxis.  We hope at some point to have a transportation van for the school to minimize the number of kids who have to travel this way.  In the meantime, though, it is a powerful measure of our success that parents think so highly of the school that they send their kids from 2 or 3 villages over on okadas to attend.

The school now has a parade band.  It is called the Pat and Gerry Neils Memorial Band in honor of two now deceased supporters of the school.

Kabari Blessing Fole, a long-time teacher at the school.

Having class, June 2002.

Volunteering to answer a question in math class, June 2002.

Primary 4 kids in the classroom, July 2009.


A math teacher giving a lesson on fractions, June 2002.


Charity Nnee, the school's first teacher in the classroom, 2002.


Scott and Tijen Pegg with some of the kids and books donated by the International Friends Committee.
 
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 02:23
 
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