Stroud Half Marathon Marling Staff Runners 2011

A group of Marling School staff will be running the Stroud Half Marathon in 2011. We will be raising money to support our own PTA who will give 50% of all money raised to one of Marling students' chosen charities, Noonkodin Secondary School.

Noonkodin Secondary School is in the remote mountain village of Eluwai, northern Tanzania. Most students at Noonkodin are Maasai pastoralists. The school was founded in 2004 with only 5 students, taught under the shade of a tree. Now, there are almost 200 students between 14 and 25. Around half of these receive a free education, thanks to international sponsors.

Noonkodin is the only school in Tanzania that teaches a special programme of Indigenous Knowledge alongside the full Tanzanian National Curriculum in English, Maths, Kiswahili, Geography, History, Civics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics. In 2010, Noonkodin was ranked 3rd out of 23 schools in the district for academic achievement.

With the generosity of sponsors, Noonkodin School has grown and grown, so that it now consists of four classrooms, a science lab, a library/computer room, two staff houses, a kitchen, toilet blocks and boys and girls dormitories. There are plans for a new girls dormitory, an emergency vehicle, student sponsorship and support for teacher training.