Governor-General visits Plan projects in Africa

Governor General Quentin Bryce helps serve up a daily meal provided by the World Food Program to students of Kawangware School in Kenya

Australia's Governor-General Quentin Bryce was impressed by Plan's work at Kawangware School in Kenya on a recent visit to Africa.

Plan has repaired or constructed classrooms, helped set up child peer groups, facilitated teacher training and provided clean water and proper sanitation. A daily meal provided through the World Food Program has also meant that children do not go hungry.

"I enjoyed enormously the time that I spent visiting the school. I have learnt of the challenges for boys and girls in education," says Ms Bryce, who is also a child rights advocate, and a former board member of Plan in Australia.

The activity has ensured that children were involved in the changes in the school and has only been possible due to support from the community and child sponsors around the world.

As well as Kawangware School located in an urban slum in Nairobi, Ms Bryce also visited two Plan projects in rural Kisarawe, Tanzania – a village microfinance project and a school-based water and sanitation project. Ms Bryce was in Africa on a nine-country tour of Mauritius, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and the Seychelles where she meet with the presidents of all these countries. The purpose of the tour was to emphasise Australia’s growing engagement in Africa.