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| Wednesday, 29 July 2009 00:00 |
Record Breaking Year for King Alfred's School 2009For the 6th year running a team from King Alfred's School, in Hampstead, London came to EHRA to take part in our 'Youth Wilderness Challenge'. This involves fundraising back in the UK to raise money for a renovation project at A.Gariseb Primary School, on the Ugab River then coming out to Namibia for 16 days, half of which is spent at the school doing hard manual labour to fix dilapidated classrooms, office block and perform general repairs.
The second part of the challenge is for the team to learn to navigate using a map and compass whilst walking around 100km through the Ugab River and completing the final challenge of navigating totally alone to the final nights camp. This year the team walked into the camp at a record breaking 2.09 pm! We were astonished as thats at least 2.5 hours quicker than the other groups! This group also raised a huge amount of money for EHRA's school programme at A.Gariseb Primary. From all at EHRA can we say a MASSIVE thank you to a really amazing group of people: Esther, Issie, Sophie N, Sophie W, Kristina, Molly, Natasha, Maya, Benji, Jesse, Rufus, Theo, Will, Joe, Jack, Saul, Jacob and the teachers Sandrine and Eva. |