Last week, two of our students, Rebecca Childs and Lea Duforest, having heard about the Kola Tree Project, took it upon themselves to organise a charity committee. These two girls inspired us all with their ideas and incredible energy to come up with many ways in which to raise money for children in Sierra Leone.
They put together, along with the Activity Leaders, and led by Dan, a fun packed day with a huge array of activities. In the morning break dougnuts were sold and enjoyed, as were hugs, glow sticks for the international party that night and other goodies and the most amazing thing about all of this was that the students themselves organised it and in mnay cases ran the stalls. The afternoon was packed full of fun activities which the students again put together with the advice of the activity leaders and there was palm reading, hair braiding, egg and spoon races and another 15 or so stalls. My favourite was the stall set up to choose the name for my baby (!) for which I very much enjoyed and I loved the old fashioned 'count the number of sweets in a jar' game.
In the evening, the students ran their own party, paying a little bit if they wanted to put on their own songs and music and judging by how red faced and thirsty everyone came out of that evening activity, I would say that the party certainly went well :)
The day was a complete success and the students managed to raise just over 600 pounds for the Kola Tree School which will be used to fund the newly built library with books, something that we may take for granted, but for the children over in Sierra leone, books are a rarity. Now, with the amazing ideas and dedication from our students, many other children will be able to enjoy one of the greatest pleasures in life.
We are all very proud of you students, so thank you for your enthusiasm and help.
Below are just some of the photos taken on our charity day.....
They put together, along with the Activity Leaders, and led by Dan, a fun packed day with a huge array of activities. In the morning break dougnuts were sold and enjoyed, as were hugs, glow sticks for the international party that night and other goodies and the most amazing thing about all of this was that the students themselves organised it and in mnay cases ran the stalls. The afternoon was packed full of fun activities which the students again put together with the advice of the activity leaders and there was palm reading, hair braiding, egg and spoon races and another 15 or so stalls. My favourite was the stall set up to choose the name for my baby (!) for which I very much enjoyed and I loved the old fashioned 'count the number of sweets in a jar' game.
In the evening, the students ran their own party, paying a little bit if they wanted to put on their own songs and music and judging by how red faced and thirsty everyone came out of that evening activity, I would say that the party certainly went well :)
The day was a complete success and the students managed to raise just over 600 pounds for the Kola Tree School which will be used to fund the newly built library with books, something that we may take for granted, but for the children over in Sierra leone, books are a rarity. Now, with the amazing ideas and dedication from our students, many other children will be able to enjoy one of the greatest pleasures in life.
We are all very proud of you students, so thank you for your enthusiasm and help.
Below are just some of the photos taken on our charity day.....
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