NORTH Berwick Rotary Club will continue its support of a Malawian school for a third year after seeing the success its contribution has had.

The club has supported Mangochi Orphans Education and Training (MOET) organisation, which started in 1999 with 10 orphans being taught under a grass shelter.

The school then received a grant from a local fund to construct its first building.

Today, there are 200 children and six classrooms, a kitchen and piped water, together with administration, training and playground facilities.

The town’s Rotary Club originally agreed to fund a teacher for a year but, due to the success, the support has been extended to a third year.

The school provides smaller class sizes, which enable a much-needed focus on pastoral care, vocational training for older children to prepare them for the outside world and provides one meal a day to pupils since it first began 10 years ago.

The school is arranged into communities, where the children live and are taught sustainable crop growing, natural medicine and HIV awareness.

For more information about the school and its work, visit www.fomoe.org Meanwhile, the Rotary Club is supporting two events next month with a concert and annual quiz.

Next Saturday (March 1), Shine Youth Music Theatre returns to North Berwick after entertaining crowds in 2012.

The show features 35 young people performing music from the world of stage and screen, with an eclectic mix.

On Thursday, March 6, the popular Rotary quiz night returns to the Scottish Fire Services College in Gullane, for teams of four.

Tickets for both events, which start at 7.30pm, are available in North Berwick from Greens and Blues and Henry of North Berwick, and from Ramsays in Gullane, or from any member of the Rotary Club.