Testbourne Mityana Project  

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A group of 14, year 10 & 11 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. Therefore, indeed it is an honour for each and every one of them to be chosen

The next trip will take place in October 2009, and is the third of a five-year project. The Winchester Diocese is linked to this part of Uganda, the Whitchurch Deanery in particular with Mityana, and now Testbourne School has been linked with Mityana Secondary School.

Miss Sarah Kinsey and Rev Dodie Marsden –who, along with Mr Dick Stevens will accompany the pupils, building further on the previous Testbourne school visits to the area in 2007 and 2008. More details here

The two-week trip will include a visit to an orphanage, church services, a tea plantation, an African drum session and an excursion to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. 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 priority for funds raised this year is the provision and installation of solar panels for the Primary and Secondary schools in Mityana.