School expedition to Africa
By Estralita McCall, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
School expedition to Africa
Broadening the world view of young students by leading an expedition to live simply in southern Africa
2010
London
I am an assistant headteacher at a girls' school. I teach Physics and am responsible for disadvantaged students and aspects of teaching and learning.
My Fellowship enabled me to carry out an inspection visit for a school trip to complete a community-based project in a village near Livingstone and support the completion of the project. The visit enabled me to risk assess the trip in situ and make links with the local press and television network to publicise the work that we would be completing.
My interest in the project stemmed from my association with an English couple living in Livingstone. Through my efforts and those of my students, we were able to build, over a number of years, an eight-classroom village school, a pre-school and a medical centre. The school is now funded by the Zambian Government. I am especially proud since, as a teacher, education underpins everything I do.
The Churchill Fellowship in Livingstone enabled me to convey and publicise what my students, fellow teachers and I were trying to achieve – it also provided the opportunity to seek out and meet with the district commissioner. I have been able to leave an educational legacy, of which I am immensely proud.
By Estralita McCall, 2021
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By Estralita McCall, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.