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Children's Centre

Management Development Centre

Construction Site, October 2004

Children's Centre

Magic Bus now believes that there is a real need for a permanent facility to enable the team to improve on the activities offered and to reduce the financial burdens of hiring new venues and transporting the equipment each time.

The funds to purchase nine acres of land and construct for phase one of the centre have been generously funded by The Kadoorie Charitable Foundation. We will build a base camp for the Magic Bus activities that will cater for residential weekend trips (approx. 50 children and 2 NGO leaders, 10 volunteers/staff, 4 permanent staff and their families) and for day programmes.

Kayaking, October 2004

The new Centre will provide a well-equipped, secure environment. With the emphasis on the ‘community’.
The whole camp will be a friendly, comfortable place where we can maximise the potential of each and every child and adult.

Magic Bus has partnered with Bombay Natural History Society (B.N.H.S.) to provide a full-fledged conservation project on the land. It intends to offer the children a programme of studying animals, both wild and domestic, and the local flora.

Planned ropes course -
Artist's impression

The centre will provide canoeing, ropes course, climbing wall, raft building, trekking, rappelling, mountain biking, young children’s playground, animal farm, children’s garden, nature trail, arts and crafts centre, outdoor theatre, resources centre: maps, library, telescopes, audio-visual room, computer study room, healthcare centre, etc.

Magic Bus extends a thank you to two new recent sponsors for the Children’s centre:

The Malaney Family Trust have generously sponsored the building of the Dining Hall in the children’s centre which will be completed by April.

The Rangoonwala Foundation have generously sponsored the Resources Centre which will be completed in phase two of the children’s centre by November 2005.