Students on journey of self discovery
Twelve students from Warragul Regional College are currently in Botswana and Zambia as a part of the World Challenge program run each year by the college.
The students are supported by Warragul Regional College teachers Riccardo Velardi and Hayley Mott and their expedition leader Ben Thompson.
The group has flown into Gaborone, Botswana where they begin with a desert trek and safari in the Okavanga Delta before moving into Zambia where they will spend a week in Mwandi – a village 120km from Livingstone.
The visit to Mwandi will be the students’ community project where they will be building mud huts for HIV AIDS orphans for a week. Next they head to Victoria Falls and then completing a trek of a gorge in Northern Zambia.
As a part of their fundraising activities to support their community project in Zambia, the students from the college have been helping the Rotary Club of Warragul with their Christmas tree project and the Warragul Rotary Art Show.
Students participating in the World Challenge program spend 12 months fundraising as well as planning and preparing for their trip. The program allows students to embark on an amazing journey of self-discovery. The life skills they learn help to prepare them for adulthood and the world beyond home.
Working with Warragul Rotary has given the students an opportunity to both raise funds for their community project in Zambia as well as an appreciation of community service in their own town.