At Speech Day and OC Day in the summer, the Head outlined the broadening of the Cranleigh Ethos to include the wider provision of opportunities for service away from the local area, including more chances for pupils to do service in communities in the developing world. As a complement to existing links in the Lebanon and Kenya, Cranleigh is partnering with Beyond Ourselves (www.beyondourselves.co.uk), a London-based charity that works to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people in both London and Zambia.
The first practical outcome of this partnership, 'Beyond Cranleigh', is a planned trip in September 2011 for current members of the Upper Sixth and OCs to start building much-needed classrooms at Kawama School, in Kitwe. The school, currently consisting of 220 pupils, is run from a single building where five classes are taught simultaneously.
In the October Long Leave following that trip, a group of current Fifth and Lower Sixth Formers would head out to finish the building and paint the classrooms, ready for use in January 2012. Alongside this, we will also be launching a child sponsorship programme. For £12.50 per month per pupil, this would include uniform, teachers’ salaries, textbooks and one free school meal for each pupil. Note that ALL monies raise for this project will go directly to the Zambia projects and is not being used to subsidise the Cranleigh trip cost.
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