March 2010

Bungalow Bash For Cash

Stourbridge College ACE students (Assisted Continuing Education) on the Independent Living Skills and Employability Skills courses have taken the college mission statement – Unlocking Talent, Creating Futures – literally by helping orphans and vulnerable children in Africa.

On 24th March the students are holding a Bungalow Bash, an African themed party to raise funds for Green Park School in Zambia. Some have made large cut out elephants and giraffes, a model of the school and posters for display. The students will take part in African song and dance, drama stories, as well as selling drinks and cakes which the students will be baking. Gifts have been donated for raffle and tombola prizes.

Garry Brooking, ACE Lecturer, said: “I invited a friend, Ruth Chitty, to talk to my students – who were working on an Enterprise Project - about her work in Zambia with Green Park School. Her and her husband, Mark, had set up a charity after visiting the school in 2007. I had been moved when I heard her story and my students wanted to do something more to help the children. We have written to Felix Sinkala, Headteacher at Green Park School, telling him about the Bungalow Bash – named because my students’ lessons take place in the college bungalow – and he was really pleased with our efforts.”

Felix said: “I believe that Stourbridge College students can learn a great deal from a continuing connection, more than they could achieve from simply contributing to a larger charity. For in this personal connection they can hear how the individual children are getting on. It’s the kind of local and global education which I think is of great benefit to all.”

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