Oprah’s Opulent School

Oprah Winfrey’s 150-girl $46 million South African boarding school in South Africa is in the news again.

One of the dorm matrons apparently molested girls under her care.

It reminded me of Chicagoland charity Rise International, which builds schools in Angola for $12,500 each.

105 school have been built so far.

After the schools are constructed, the Angola Ministry of Education provides the teachers.

It’s an amazing private-public partnership.

New readers who are open to being inspired might want to read,

Illinois Financing African Schools: $12,500 to $40 Million

Our family supports the effort.

Perhaps yours will decide to do so, too.

Pretty hard to make your charitable giving go farther than this.

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The picture on top is of a redesigned school at Kavimbi in Benguela.

Since it is so much larger than the previous ones, my guess is that it costs more than the $12,500 it cost to build the ones on the left.

It looks like they have gone from mud to concrete block. The photo on the bottom right is of a concrete block school being built at Chilonda in Bie. Obviously it will last longer than the mud brick schools.

All pictures can be enlarged by clicking on them.


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