Testbourne Team Uganda 2011

Testbourne Team Uganda 2011

A group of 14 pupils from Testbourne School in Whitchurch have been chosen to represent the school in a trip to Mityana in Uganda.

They were picked not for their academic abilities alone but for their general all round behaviour and attitude to learning, as well as their everyday conduct and manners.

The next trip will take place in October 2011 and is the fifth of a five-year project. The Winchester Diocese is linked to this part of Uganda, the Whitchurch Deanery in particular with Mityana and Testbourne School is linked to Mityana Secondary School.

Mr Chris Rowe, Rev Dodie Marsden and Mrs Ruth Beasley will accompany the pupils, building further on the previous Testbourne School visits to the area (2007-2010).

The two-week trip will include a visit to an orphanage, church services, Mityana district hospital, an African drum session and excursions to the Murchison Falls National Park, Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. The pupils will also learn about the language, the tribal systems, social issues, HIV and Aids and also experience first-hand geographical, ecological, economical and conservation issues so vastly different from our own. The children will then pass on their knowledge to Testbourne School and the wider community

Any fundraising additional to the trip itself will be distributed to several places that we visit on our trip e.g. the orphange and local rural primary schools and of course the secondary school.

Aims Of The Visit

• To widen pupils’ knowledge and awareness of another
   culture
• To reflect on what they can learn from first-hand
  experience and to share that knowledge for the
  mutual benefit of others
• To continue to develop the Whitchurch-Mityana
  relationship

There is plenty of information available about previous projects here

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