World Challenge: Project Ghana 2013
January 25, 2012 in World Challenge by Mrs G Sangster
Students, staff and the local community are preparing for the challenge of a lifetime. A challenge which will be based on commitment and responsibility. A challenge which will mean hard work and giving up free time. A challenge which will be life changing.
World Challenge is a national programme which provides expedition experiences within the developing world. It teaches life skills and opens minds to aspects outside of the classroom.
Approximately 15 Students from North Shore Health Academy will undertake a two year journey raising over £1,600 each for a trip to Ghana. There, they will spend two weeks working on a community project such as building a play park for children in a Ghanaian village, painting a school or helping to build a well. They will help young students to read, teach them songs and games and make friends with the local community developing a sense of empathy and understanding.
The eventual trip will take place in July 2013, however before that time there will be much work to be done to ensure the fund target is reached. Students must take ownership of the programme and the fund raising, supporting events, coming up with ideas, raising sponsorship outside of the Academy.
Parents, family and community members will be invited to join the journey, offering advice, expertise and free time in support of the work these students will be undertaking.
Although we envisage the challenge to be incredibly tough, the benefits and rewards will out weigh the rocky road of our journey and will ultimately turn students into young adults, able and ready to take the next step into the big wide world.
Students will develop a sense of their own worth, increasing confidence and the ‘can do’ culture. Taking leadership of a team, delegating and making decisions will be skills they can add to their portfolios ensuring that the Academy’s four Rs ethos of Relationships, Resilience, Resourcefulness and Responsibility are firmly embedded into their future roles as adults.
As the students firmly grip the reigns of this enormous project they welcome the excitement, adventure and hard work the next two years will bring. Go Team North Shore!
