During the summer ten Kingham Hill School pupils, known as Team Zambia, travelled to Africa, where the group spent two weeks volunteering with charity, Life Support at their children's village.
The Sixth Formers, aged 17 to 18, travelled to Chingola in Zambia to work at Eden Farm, a man-made village that provides a safe home environment for up to 250 orphaned and vulnerable children.
Earlier this year a primary school was opened at the village, and Team Zambia spent most of their time based here. The pupils painted the largest classroom block and taught sport and craft lessons to the children at the school.
A very popular sports session was sports day, so much so that the teachers and children at the school asked for another to be ran the following week. With nearly 100 school children to coordinate these were very busy days.
In the run up to their trip to Chingola Team Zambia worked very hard on a number of fundraising activities, including cake sales, non-uniform day and sponsored triathlons. Thanks to the school community the team were able to raise a staggering £4,500 for Life Support and Eden Farm.
Trip Coordinator, Mr Petra, said of the experience of volunteering at the project, "This is such a worthwhile project for Kingham Hill School to be involved in because it is long term, dramatically serves the local community and gives disadvantaged children the opportunity to have a stable home environment, an education and a chance of being released from the poverty trap. We found the work we were involved in on the farm very rewarding and the Zambian people we met were very warm and friendly, a real joy to be with."
