Vaiala Beach School - Samoa: Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club - 08 May 2015

What a fantastic way to start the day!!!!! A massive thanks to the Parents Association (PA) who hosted the first ever 'Breakfast Club' at Vaiala Beach School.

PA Members: Eneleata Samau, Andrea Willson, Nicole Maynard, Maina Schuster, Vena-Liz Upton & Sabreen Ali

The children enjoyed reading and being read to by parents, teachers and older students. They also enjoyed the yummy muffins, fruit and milk supplied by the PA.

Thanks for all your hard work ladies and a special thanks too to those parents and caregivers who came along to read to the children.

Introducing Lorraine Williams, Principal.

Lorraine is the reason Vaiala Beach School is what it is today. She first arrived in Samoa back in 1981 with the idea she would be staying a year or two. Instead she is still here and Vaiala Beach School is the result of her hard work.

When Lorraine was asked if she could teach a couple’s son she had no idea one student would lead to five students then ten and then fifty. Before she knew it, the Lorraine Williams School had started and the journey was just beginning. The first location of her school was at Vaiala Beach.

What followed was a series of events that would have seen some people give up. But not Lorraine, even after two cyclones that wiped out the school and its resources, she started again and rebuilt the school in Vailima where it is today. Lorraine speaks her mind and she used this skill to convince the bank that this solo-mother was the right choice to lend to so she could build a new school.

The school slowly grew in classrooms and in students.

Thousands of students have benefitted from one women’s vision – Lorraine Williams.

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Breakfast Club - 08 May 2015