Academy students out to Africa

Working in the HIV-ravaged communities of Africa are a group of Thorne students this summer.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th May 2014, 13:00 BST
Pictured are Trinity Academy students (L-R, clockwise from top left) Matthew Elwood, James Quean, Dale Smith, Abbie Tomlinson, Nikita Watkins and Madeline Peacock who are heading to Zambia this summerPictured are Trinity Academy students (L-R, clockwise from top left) Matthew Elwood, James Quean, Dale Smith, Abbie Tomlinson, Nikita Watkins and Madeline Peacock who are heading to Zambia this summer
Pictured are Trinity Academy students (L-R, clockwise from top left) Matthew Elwood, James Quean, Dale Smith, Abbie Tomlinson, Nikita Watkins and Madeline Peacock who are heading to Zambia this summer

A group of sixth formers from Trinity Academy will spend a fortnight working in Miloso, in Zambia, and are expecting to draw on their school values of compassion, determination and courage in the service of others when they work with orphans and the elderly.

The students - Nikita Watkins and Madeline Peacock, both 16, and 17-year-olds Abbie Tomlinson, Matthew Elwood, Dale Smith and James Quean - will join students from their sister schools in the Emmanuel Schools Foundation on the trip.

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The work will involve home based care for the elderly, teaching orphans at Donata special school, the only facility in the region, which looks after 50 children with a variety of disabilities, and building projects.

The students will also experience life in the bush on an expedition to Mount Mumpu, the highest freestanding peak in the country, sleeping out under the stars with only mosquito nets for cover.

Head boy Matthew, from Thorne, added: “We can’t begin to imagine what it’s going to be like. It’s exciting but a bit scary at the same time.”

The students had to apply for a place on the trip, explaining what they would bring to the communities they visit.

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