Dominase

Dust off your dancing shoes and blow away those January blues: one of Buriton’s big barn dances is coming soon …

This event will be held in the amazing Tithe Barn at Ditcham on Saturday 20^th January (7pm til 11pm) with live music from the popular Rampagers and a cash bar.

At only £10 per ticket it’s bound to sell out quite quickly, so get your tickets as soon as you can: from Doug Jones, 17 Bones Lane (01730 231326); payment with orders please (cheques payable to ‘Buriton Village to Village Group’).

Each month will provide a picture of the parish from a bygone era – photographs from across the last century.

And, as usual, at about 8 by 12 inches (A4 size), each page provides plenty of room to note all your commitments for next year.

Some sample pages are illustrated above – and a complete ‘sample’ copy (with an order form) can also be seen in the church.

The calendar is being ‘printed to order’ so please place your orders swiftly.

The event (in the Ditcham Barn: 7pm til 11pm on Saturday 20^th January) will feature live music from the Rampagers and a cash bar. All proceeds will go to Buriton’s “Village-to-Village” charity link with Dominase. 

There will be a cash bar at the event to provide participants with a wide range of liquid refreshments.

With almost 120 people packed into the village hall in October, Paul and Jill Martin provided another entertaining evening which teased everyone’s brain cells whilst raising hundreds of pounds for projects in Dominase.

A short presentation before the start of the quiz illustrated the impressive range of achievements which the small charity has completed over the last twelve months – and explained the priority for funding for 2018.

Children in Years R and One got together for a morning in October to look at pictures from Dominase and to consider the conditions in which people live in other parts of the world.

The pictures inspired lots of questions and discussion about the quality of houses, water supplies, toilets and much more.

The contrasts between Buriton and Dominase with regard to the availability of reading books and classroom facilities was particularly marked.

Each month will provide a picture of the parish from a bygone era – photographs from across the last century.

And, as usual, at about 8 by 12 inches (A4 size), each page provides plenty of room to note all your commitments for next year.

Some sample pages are illustrated above – and a complete ‘sample’ copy (with an order form) can also be seen in the church.

The calendar is being ‘printed to order’ so please place your orders swiftly.

Simply phone Doug Jones (01730 231326) or Elaine Bray (01730 264278) or add your name to the list in the church.

This highly entertaining Quiz Night, orchestrated by Paul Martin, is bound to sell out quite quickly (all previous years have completely sold out) - so please book your places early.

It's only £5 per person with all money raised going towards improving living conditions in Buriton's sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana.

Teams can be up to 8 people - but any number can enter and we can help link you up with others if necessary.

Bring your own food, drink, glasses etc and have a really fun evening.

The books, all approved by the Ghanaian Education Service, were collected from a big publisher in Accra and taken all the way to Dominase.

In the schools in and around Dominase, supplementary reading books can make a big difference to children's opportunities to learn English at an early age - which opens the door to all subsequent learning of other subjects; and to a route out of poverty.

Miss out on English in their early years of education, and the children miss out on life-chance opportunities thereafter - as generations of villagers have done in the past.

Children in the outlying hamlet of Ananekrom, near to Dominase in the far north of the Central Region of Ghana, now have their first ever toilets.

Until now boys and girls, like most of their families at home, have had to squat in the bush around the village when they have wanted to go to the loo.

Now, thanks to Buriton's link, all that can change - and all the children will be able to wash their hands thanks to a big tank which collects rainwater from the roof.

Villagers in Buriton's “adopted” community of Dominase, in Ghana, are seeing more and more improvements in the health of the population, particularly young children, as a result of Buriton's programme of sanitation projects.

This programme of support for sanitation, now in its sixth year, sees local families doing much of the hard work whilst money from Buriton pays for the relatively expensive materials such as bags of cement, roofing sheets and vent pipes.