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Peru beckons for 40th birthday Greendown welcomes Uganda volunteer
Mandy Martin and Brenda Moody, pictured. travelled to Peru on visitors in partnership supports return to
26 June with friends and others who responded to a story in The Greendown Community School's part- normality
Link last year asking for walkers to join them.
nership with Moriting WaThuto School After learning about the work of the
Apart from trek- in South Africa will be strengthened
king the Inca trail to when two staff and five pupils visit for Suubi Trust in Uganda, Jennifer Al-
the mountain city of a week of international friendship and lison of Freshbrook has spent a year
Machu Picchu, the - ^' learning from 24 June. following university raising money to
group will be staying A group of Year 11 pupils from fund a trip to help.
with local families on Greendown spent a week at Moriting
the edge of Lake Titi- f ` last November and are looking forward
cacaanddescending to meeting some of their friends again.
into the Amazon rain "I can't wait; it'll be just brilliant to share
forest. things about our lives in Swindon with
Mandy, a stalwart our partners," said Sian Gannon.
of the Swindon Twin Lauren Fisher, Year 10, is looking
Peaks walking team, forward to meeting a Meriting teacher.
hasorganisedthetrip ; -
"It'll be so good to meet Ms Mbambo.
to mark her fortieth Read more about the trip at I remember her when she came to
birthday. www.swindonlink.com Greendown three years ago"
The charity is working to improve
healthcare in Lira in northern
Uganda. After twenty years of
Do you have but thousands of people remain in
conflict a truce has been signed
camps, reluctant to return because
they fear there will be no schools or
medical help.
Jennifer is spending two months
in the area working in the com-
munity to improve healthcare and
facial psoriasis? schools and orphanages.
sanitation, as well as helping in local
She has joined Lucy Eastgate,
the university friend who first told
her about the SuubiTrust.They both
graduated from Cardiff University
last year and wanted to see more of
the world.They decided to plan their
own expeditions rather than sign
up with a company that organises
voluntary work overseas.
Lucy, from Wootton Bassett, stud-
ied nursing and has been helping
to set up a mobile medical centre
to take services to people returning
to their farms and villages.
Jennifer, whose degree was in
maths and statistics, expects that
part of her role will be to raise aware-
ness of the plight of the people in
the area and to document how the
01793 charity is helping.
As she prepared to leave there
were some last minute nerves. "I've
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never done anything so adventur-
ous. The Foreign and Common-
wealth Office advises people not to
You will speak to a
travel to northern Uganda because
member of our there isn't a peace agreement with
the rebels who have been fighting
study team who will the government for years. But Lucy
check whether this says there isn't a problem and she
feels really safe."
study may suit you
To support its work, the Suubi
Trust needs to raise £1,500 each
month to allow them to provide
primary health care to the most dis-
advantaged people in the region.
Make a donation at:
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www.suubitrust.org.uk/jennifer
