TEAM GAMBIA 2014

In December 2013, a group of students joined forces with students from Hamstead Hall School in Handsworth Wood to go on a week-long volunteering trip to The Gambia. This was all part of a long-standing project being run by Peter Evans at Hamstead Hall School, who built the school from scratch!

As you can see from the photos above, this is an incredibly valuable volunteering trip. The students got to work with the kids at the Jemus Jungkung Jammeh Memorial Nursery School in Abuko and also experience a totally different culture in this developing country.

With a year's experience under our belt, we are doing the trip again in 2014, but this time we're on our own! 24 students have signed up to embark on this exciting expedition, which takes place in December 2014. We have already started with our plans.

Students are being set a challenge to raise £400 each for this school. With it costing just £375 to pay a teacher there for one year, this fundraising target will do real good for the school in The Gambia. There is currently a large waiting list of children who want to attend the school, but they do not have room for them, despite class sizes of 50-60 children in a class. The money we raise will help fund the construction of two new classrooms to fill that demand. Staff and students will work together over the 10 months leading up to the trip itself to raise as much money as we can for the school.

We will add more information about this exciting trip and our fundraising plans as they are confirmed!