Half Term trip to Ghana

In the first week of half term a team of thirteen students and three staff travelled to Ghana in West Africa on an expedition with Pod Volunteer - a Cheltenham based overseas volunteer and expedition organisation. The team lived in a mud hut village, joining the work of a local development charity which supports a number of communities with health care, hygiene awareness, tech education and water supply.

 

The full range of experiences and emotions create the best of school trips. Ours included: football matches, dancing in church, long

mud road journeys, painting a school, freedom to safely wander around the village, playing with local kids, chatting to local adults, scorpions and snakes, machetes and jungle trekking, challenging discussions around wise giving and charitable harm, mosquito nets, a village ceremony, hand washing and tech training with local kids, rainforest canopy walkways, cold bucket washing, long drop toilets, sleeping in hammocks under an African sky, time at the beach, rugby on the sand with the local team and a visit to Cape Coast Castle where 3 million people were sold into slavery and as many as 6 million died in the horrors of the slave trade.

 

Thank you to Mrs Larkin-Lawton, Mrs Cameron-Trevail, Mr Beecham and the amazing team of students. A video of the expedition is available to watch here.