Two sixth form students from a top independent all-girls school will be heading for West Africa this July to work with orphans in Ghana.
Grace Wynne Williams, 18, from Denbigh, and Hannah Moore, 17, from Dorset, will no sooner have finished their A levels at Howells School, in Denbigh, than they will be jetting off.
The two girls were inspired to go out to the former British colony by a school friend from Ghana but first they each have to raise £2,000 to fund their trip with Projects Abroad.
Hannah, from Bovington, in Dorset, said: “We will spend two weeks there with Project Abroad and we’ll be working with children, mainly in orphanages.
“We’ll be helping teach them and also helping build homes and a school and we will be living with local families.
“We both wanted to visit a country that was very different and to do something to help other people and find out more about ourselves and to travel as well.”
She will be taking A-levels in English, Photography and History and hopes to go to university before making a career in photo-journalism or arts ane event management – she has worked at the Glastonbury Festival twice and at Camp Bestival.
Grace is also taking A-levels in June in PE, IT and Business Studies and wants to work in child nursing. She said: “We’d looked at a few options and wanted to get involved in a project that involved caring.
“We will soon be going off to the doctor to get various needles and we have to raise money to fund the trip so we’ve organised a disco and are hoping to do a duck race as well as looking for sponsors.
“It’s a wonderful, colourful country with great music and I dance so I’m hoping to teach some dance out there.”
Howells School Academic Principal Emma Jones said: “The school has quite a tradition of students travelling on voluntary projects around the world.
“It’s so worthwhile and provides them with really wonderful life experiences and that’s something we encourage at Howells where we pride ourselves on our own multiculturalism.”
