We arrived back this morning at 4.30am, and boy is it cold. Back at work today - it seems strange to be sat at a computer again, and not be wielding a hammer, pushing a wheelbarrow or donning my hard hat, which proudly sits in my office now. I will come back on later or tomorrow and finish off the trip, as we have the celebrations and party to share, our trip to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 of his 27 years in a cell shorter than the length of his body, and our final trip to the Port of Cape Town just before we flew home. See you later. Thank you again for following the blog. Rhiannon
South Africa Here We Come! Build Blitz - North Kent College with Mellon Educate - My journey to South Africa begins in 3 days!!
My name is Rhiannon Hughes, Deputy Principal of North Kent College. I am shortly travelling over to South Africa for such a worthy cause with 3 lucky students and one of our carpentry lecturers. I shall be working with Mellon Educate and 250 volunteers to build and repair schools in just one week . See below some of the history of this fabulous charity and how we are about to help them in their wonderful endeavours. Follow me on my journey out in South Africa, watch the schools being built and repaired, see the children we will be helping and so much more.... North Kent College Construction students are a step closer to flying out to South Africa next month, having been offered the chance to help build and repair schools in a week courtesy of UK charity Mellon Educate and funded by local business entrepreneur Mark Lindop. Inspired by Nelson Mandela, Niall Mellon created the charity Mellon Educate in 2002 to help change lives and bring education to impoverished commun...
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