Twenty–three IB1 students came on the trip this year, the largest group ever, and I was ably assisted by Russ Webley, Eli Clarke and Sam Stone who were instrumental in the overall success of the project and kept good humour through long days and some long nights!

My thanks to the entire group for working so hard and making the trip so memorable and successful. Mwereni are now one of the few schools in Tanzania that have their own water source and it will be a life changing experience for them.

We all gained a sense of giving – a wonderful feeling and one that everyone should experience. A sense of fortune that so many things that we are blessed with are taken for granted and should not be. A sense of education, – we are fortunate to have had books – also school, and it being an automatic given in our lives. A family that supports and loves us and that does not disown or abandon us unlike the visually impaired in Mwereni. A sense of fortune that through the lottery of life we have been born with many advantages that so many do not have. Knowledge that many things are easy for us – we can go to the shops and buy new clothes, new shoes and we have more than one pair!

Philomena Clancy