A Sidmouth College sixth-former is gearing up for a new life in Ghana as she is about leaving her pristine environment behind to spend a gap year teaching disadvantaged children in the Volta region.
Seventeen-year-old Sarah Hunt has to marry her A-level studies with fundraising to reach the £5,900 needed to take up the role at a remote school in Ghana.
I am looking forward to being completely out of my comfort zone, in a completely new situation and meeting new people,” said Sarah to the Sidmouth Herald.
As part of her fundraising initiatives, the teenager bakes and sells cakes and other related pastries. “My whole family are chipping in to help,” she said.
The student has no teaching experience, but was selected via a rigorous four-day selection course, in which she had to give a 10-minute lesson and a presentation.
Sarah stated she is prepared for a culture shock, as she will be posted with one other volunteer somewhere in the Volta region of Ghana, with no running water.
“I am most nervous about the actual teaching because I want to do a good job,” she said.
“It will be difficult at first, having no mod-cons, phone signal, or Wi-Fi, but I will get used to it.”
Sarah is full of fundraising ideas to finance her trip, including a sponsored race night and a Ghanaian-themed dinner.
Sidmouth College’s head of sixth form, Sue Hurley, said: “From our point of view, this is a really good, innovative project.
“Because of financial restraints of going to university, people are working, rather than taking a year out.”
Each participant on the trip, organised by Project Trust, is awarded with a qualification. Sarah enjoys mathematics, physics and biology
SOURCE:StarrFMonline.com
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