The Wolfreton Rushanje Community
Partnership
HELPING TO BUILD A FUTURE FOR A NATION
Most 15-year-olds wouldn’t contemplate swapping the comfort of their family home in a leafy East Yorkshire suburb for a tent in Uganda. But they did not have to think twice when they were offered the opportunity of giving up all their mod-cons for a month to help with maintenance work and teaching on the other side of the world.
The teenagers will travel to Mbarara in south western Uganda, near to the border with Tanzania.
The intrepid travellers are pupils at Wolfreton School, South Ella Way, Kirk Ella, which has a link with the Rushanje Girls’ Secondary School. The relationship began in 2001 as part of the Wolfreton and Rushanje Community Partnership.
Derek Johnson is the Wolfreton teacher who set up the link. He said: “We have been involved with the school for a while and have raised money towards a generator because the children have to use oil lamps to light the building.”
The trip has been planned for the summer of 2004 but the pupils have a lot to do in the meantime.
Their biggest challenge is to raise £2,700.
One parent is quoted as saying:
”This is an opportunity I would have liked to have had,” she said.
”It is scary that these students are going so far on their own but it is the chance of a lifetime.”
This article appeared in the Hull Daily Mail in February 2003 and referred to a proposed World Challenge expedition in July 2004 (click on the logos for further
World Challenge Expedition 2004