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Preparations for African charity project
Mornacott played host to 20 young people at the weekend as part of their final preparations for travelling to Lesotho in southern Africa to assist in various projects working with the young people of that country.
In July this year the 20 Army Cadets and their staff will set off for three weeks of project work with Prince Harry’s charity Sentebale. Dividing into groups they will work with children in an AIDS orphanage, and schools for blind and physically handicapped children.
Much of the work that they will be doing will involve manual skills and as opposed to the usual planks, barrels and rope type exercises that many were more used to the Cadets were taught new skills based around building stone walls and a small footbridge across the river.
At the end of Saturday the manual tasks had been completed and everyone showed great pride in their wall and bridge building achievements, many “war stories” being embellished over a supper of spit roast lamb with all the trimmings.
The Sunday activities comprised a Country brief and hygiene and medical lectures from staff and the expedition Medical Officer.
We wish them luck in their endeavours and have no doubt that their experiences in the impoverished country of Lesotho will be quite life changing.