A GROUP of students swapped the North-East for Africa to spend some of their summer holiday helping to restore and extend a primary school.
A group of 15 to 17-year-old pupils from Polam Hall School and Sixth Form in Darlington were accompanied by teaching staff on a three-week visit to Mama Kerry School in Nakuru, Kenya.
Their work included helping to demolish old classrooms and preparing the ground for new structures.
They also helped to decorate and refurbish some of the school’s remaining rooms.
The experience demanded days of hard physical labour using limited hand tools and working long hours in intense heat.
The trip was hosted by African Adventures and organised at Polam Hall by assistant head, Jill Garvey, who said: “I think we all learned some vital life lessons and came away understanding more about the value of education and the positive difference it can make to young lives.”
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