Life changing Ghana trip

Rainford High Sixth Form focused their annual volunteers visit to Ghana on building libraries and also presenting ten schools with a class set of geometry equipment which had been sent as a gift from the Friends of Rainford High.

Rainford High group leader Hazel Duffy said: “The staff and students at the schools were very grateful, they expected us to come along with other Thrive Africa volunteers to build and paint the libraries but the gifts from The Friends of Rainford High meant that we didn’t just leave them with the resources to improve their English, but also their maths as well”.

As well as working in schools, the team also visited Kamasi Orphanage to donate the colourful bedding that they had collected to brighten up the childrens’ rooms.

Hazel said: “Some of the children there had no bed or mattress and so had to sleep on the concrete floor but they were very happy to be given the bedding with popular cartoon characters on them”.

A donation of £70, raised by one of the teaching assistants Lesley Smith, was spent on baby formula for the new born babies at the orphanage.

Lesley gave the money to the team to spend on whatever they thought would be most useful.

After a week of being in Ghana the students decided that the immunity the babies would gain by having the formula instead of just milk would help to stop them from getting ill.

Lesley was delighted to hear what the money was spent on and the students have come back with some ideas for next year’s team.