Resources pile growing

As our planning meeting approaches this weekend, the pile of resources to help us plan peer education sessions is growing.

We will be working with lots of local guides & scouts to cover topics which are important / useful to them. 

Project T shirts are here!

Our project T shirts have arrived this week and look lovely! Exciting!

We're looking forward to giving them out to everyone at our next briefing meeting on Sunday 2nd Feb.

To jab or not to jab?

That is the question... 

As always every doctor gives different advice. To add to this, there's a national shortage of yellow fever vaccine and typhoid seems hard to get too!

Hopefully everyone will get what is needed within the time we have left! Happy jab hunting!

4 Months To Go!

Several team members have now raised all of their money, a couple have even been able to donate more, which means we can do even more good work on our projects!

Only 4 months to go! :)

1st Briefing

We had our first team briefing today - exciting times!!

We started with introductions then did some getting to know you and team building activities. This included a challenge to build famous places out of pasta & marshmallows - can you guess what they are?!

Egypt - Pyramids

Wimbledon - Tennis Court

Stonehenge

Angel of the North

Eiffel Tower

The London Eye

Then we heard about 5 potential service project options which we had a vote on. We also had 8 cultural/tourist options to vote on.

The most popular ones will be discussed with the Gunjur team then a draft timetable proposed.

If team members have the opportunity to raise additional funds, there are lots more ways we can support like buying more mosquito nets for local families.

In the meantime, the fundraising and preparations continue!

Group Meeting 19th October

Our first team meeting is fast approaching!

During this time we plan to get to know each other with a few team building activities, tell the team a little bit more about where we will be staying and what to expect in The Gambia and we will also discuss and finalise the project(s) that we would like to undertake.

A kit list will be distributed and there will also be some t-shirt samples for team members to try on so that we can start thinking about a project t-shirt for the trip.

Megan is famous!

Megan from Girlguiding Wirral was interviewed by Crash radio today (7th September), talking about her fundraising event on 21st September to raise money for her trip - great PR Megan!   

http://www.crashradiouk.com

Hello

Hello and welcome to the blog for the trip to The Gambia in April 2014, for members of Cheshire Forest plus neighbouring counties Cheshire Border and Wirral.

We hope you enjoy reading about our trip and that it inspires you to travel with Girlguiding too!