The Wolfreton Rushanje Community
Partnership
World Challenge Visit 2004
During July and August 2004 a party of upper school students and staff visited Uganda in East Africa on a month long expedition with The World Challenge Organisation. The staff leaders of the expedition were Robert Desborough, an ex science teacher who is now studying medicine at the Hull and York Medical School and Jonathan Abbott, teacher of Music at Wolfreton. The team members were Samantha Chaney, Amy Berridge, Rebecca Sunman, Phil Auty, Chris Burton, David Turnbull, Adam Fisher, Kurt Smith, James Wright, Jonathan McCready, Sam Atkinson and James Holland.
As part of the World Challenge program the team had to undertake a community project lasting about a week. It was this aspect of the expedition that brought them to Wolfreton’s partner school at Rushanje. To greet them were Wolfreton teachers, Derek Johnson and John Scott who were there to help
The team arrive
The basic shell of the dormitory was completed in 2003 and named Wolfreton House but it still needed window frames, glazing, plastering and painting. The aim of the World Challenge project was, in one week to complete a substantial section of the dormitory and to see the Rushanje students move into it. Work began immediately with sanding down the roughly plastered walls and preparing the window frames and doors for painting. All the materials were purchased by the team in Uganda and brought with them to the school. After sanding, the inside walls and floor were sealed and then given two coats of emulsion. The measurements for the windows were made and the glass and putty purchased. Eventually the windows were fully glazed and after a thorough clean Wolfreton House was ready. Students
The building work in progress
