Oprah Winfrey opens another school in South Africa

Just a couple of months after opening a private girls school in South Africa, talk show maven Oprah Winfrey opened her second school in the country on Friday (March 16th). The Seven Fountains Primary School was funded through Winfrey's non-profit Angel Network, which gave it the cash to build 25 classrooms, a library, computer rooms, meeting halls, an art room, sports fields, and a landscaped playground. The $1.6 million project is "green" as well, and recycles rain water and uses seesaws and merry-go-rounds to pump water.

Solar power and a vegetable garden are also part of the campus, which was originally located on a farm and then moved to a run-down building with no windows and little electricity and running water. Winfrey visited the original Seven Fountains Primary School in 2002 and committed to building a new campus for the public institution in 2004.
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