I am going to Gambia in December with Beacon Academy. The school has been running this annual trip for the last 30 years and has made visible improvements to the community. During our stay we will split into groups and allocated a village. We will spend time in the communities and speak with village leaders to understand what they need and see where previous years' donations have been spent. On the last day we come together and have a long debate and decide how our fundraising will be distributed across the villages. Each village will receive a proportion of the money, funding many different types of projects. All the money donated will go directly to the villages.