Tough trip to help Honduran primary school pupils
A TEENAGER will jet off to Honduras next week after raising more than 6,000, in five months, to fund a year as a voluntary gap year teacher.
On Monday, former Campbeltown Grammar school pupil, Catriona Lawrie, 17, said: ‘I would like to thank everyone in Campbeltown for their support in helping me raise the money.’
She will arrive in the Spanish speaking Central American country, which is one of the poorest in the western hemisphere, two months into its rainy season.
Miss Lawrie added: ‘I will celebrate my 1 th birthday at Siguatepeque, in Honduras as I will be there for a full year with no trips back.
‘I will be teaching English, maths, IT and science at Red Apple primary.’
Miss Lawrie hopes to study to be a teacher at university on her return and sees the project organised through Argyll’s own gap year charity, Project Trust, as a good way to gain experience.
‘It’s an ama ing opportunity,’ said Miss Lawrie, ‘To immerse yourself in another culture and gain this experience before going to university.’
Miss Lawrie will take the train from Glasgow to London Heathrow, before flying to Houston, Texas, where there is a one-night stop-over before the final flight.
Before leaving she has had to have innoculations at Campbeltown hospital for hepatitis A and typhoid.
In addition, Miss Lawrie had to pay
140 to buy in a three jag course of a rabies innoculation.
Miss Lawrie added: ‘I made £82 at my final event, the Dunaverty car boot sale last Sunday where I sold many things I will not need in the coming year.’