A group of students at Cowes Enterprise College travelled to Kenya to take part in humanitarian projects with the Camps International Group.
The students took part in weeks of social action work including building projects at a primary school, animal care for a herd of 113 goats and completing a PADI open water diving course.
Time was found for exploration and relaxation and students enjoyed time at Diani Beach and even took part in a safari where they spotted elephants, lions and a leopard.
The Camps Foundation is dedicated to helping volunteers take part in projects that help communities across the world. Cowes Enterprise College is pleased to have worked with Camps previously on an expedition in Borneo.
Cowes Enterprise College Principal, Rachel Kitley, has said:
“This is such a brilliant opportunity for our students to not only play their part in such important humanitarian work but also to visit Kenya. We are delighted to hear how much students and staff enjoyed the expedition and taking part in new adventures. We are proud to offer a wide range of enrichment opportunities at Cowes Enterprise College and look forward to offering more in the future.”
so, instead of helping in their own community here on the island, they jet off to Kenya for a holiday under the guise of doing a bit of humanitarian work…no doubt the teachers went for free
how many of these lot promote a green agenda, yet jump on a jet plane for this holiday
they do not need to go to Africa to help the needy..plenty in the UK, but no safari opportunities here.
The plight of many people in Africa, especially children, is dire. Many cannot even access safe drinking water, sufficient food, schools or electric light, meaning their chances to study after dark are nil.
The point about the effects of flight are valid, but as most world powers ignore the green agenda, this trip is insignificant. War in Ukraine, Chinese and America’s use of coal are a few examples.
The students will get a much more balanced view of life on earth and they will be all the better for it.
My own young grand-children helped in a soup kitchen in South Africa, which is funded in part by members of our family. the effect on them was profound, even at a young age.
The needy in UK are in no way suffering like those in Africa.
Unsure nowadays if the photo is of the class or the trip away at first glance.
As so many Africans are leaving to burden the West with funding an expensive home, taking up another plot of our scarce land, then being fully entitled to an expensive education, even more expensive health, and free rent and free council tax, and paid for every child they produce, then just how long do YOU think it will be before the UK familes ARE suffering like those in Africa????
And why don’t all the oh so caring black celebs and rap singers donate to help ‘da bruvs’?
Also have you not noticed that many are causing the most horrific crimes in Western countries who have given them a safe, equality standard of living and this is how they ‘repay’.
may i remind you that those countries in africa have a history of human populations that go back much further than the amount of time people have existed on the land mass of the uk – based on that fact, they should be much further ahead in terms of quality of life, education and technology.
why is it then, that the uk is much further ahead in socio development and standards of living –
you say they cannot access safe drinking water – whose fault is that – it is theirs – they have managed to find the money to buy weapons, fight wars and build oil pipelines, but not bothered to build a pipeline for water for their citizens.
they have allowed their societies to be s^^tholes and you feel sorry for them.
get real.
Mostly our fault (plus the French, Dutch and other colonising powers), actually.
Colonisation brought them forwards upwards of 1000 years of development in a couple of hundred and the current situation is the result of that.
Wrong – it is their fault entirely
in ghana 1 in 5 people defecate openly and only 1 in 7 households have a toilet – this is a recent as 2021.
what is their excuse – in the uk – indoor toilets have been standard for so long and no one craps in the street any more.
instead of making excuses – perhaps the african governments could have spent more money on civilisation instead of buying weapons and fighting pointless wars.
No, the teachers do not go for free.
I went on a similar trip (to E European orphanages) many years ago as a parent. It encouraged my daughter to become a doctor, which she now is. She spent a number of years working in Romania and now works in the UK as a paediatrician.
Considering she was previously considering a career in law, that’s a win in my book.
These trips are certainly not “jollies” and some of the things the kids see are heart-breaking. Massive learning and life experience.
Teachers pay to go on school trips – absolutely laughable. If I told you that train drivers have to pay fares like everyone else – while driving a train – you’d probably believe that too…
Nice little Britain mentality there, go back to reading your Daily Mail and frothing at the mouth in anger about young people these days !!!!!!!
Soon such long haul trips will become unnecessary for the students, as most inhabitants leave Africa and any Western destinations with easy and generous benefits then become a third world country unable to cope with the influx imo.
Smoke weed every day
Wow, sounds like their contribution was invaluable.
For true balance they ought to have taken the students into UK jails, UK maternity wards, UK crime stats, UK foster and adoption unwanted childrens homes and researched world wide data to show that ‘wherever’ upon the globe these people settle en-masse that the most serious crime, poverty, overbreeding and misery befalls those areas compared with the same amount of Caucasian people.
One take side is pointless for learning.
Akin to listening ONLY to the defence in a trial and asking what the jury’s verdict is.
Truth can be painful, but ignoring such will bring more pain.
This was nothing to do with deprivation and poverty. Merely a safari trip for kids whose parents have 5k in their back pockets. The rest have gone to Pompey dock yard.