Today I am interviewing a number of young people who are hoping to be part of the first cohort from their school to go to Kenya. The trip will be in 2015, will be to Spurgeons Academy in Kibera slum, Nairobi, and despite all that has happened in that city in recent months, none of them have been put off from the opportunity to go and make a positive difference in the lives of others, as well as having their own lives transformed.
Tomorrow I am doing a similar lot of interviewing for young people at a school in West Sussex who are hoping to go to India, and then in the evening I am meeting the team of young people who have been selected to make up the team going to Addis Ababa to run the Women At Risk children's programme for a week. One of that team has already raised all her funds by doing pop-up restaurants all summer!
And then on Friday I am meeting a group of young people who aren't at school, and who have maybe made some life choices in the past that mean that their educational experiences weren't all good ones! But nonetheless, they would like to go to Uganda and get involved with some projects there, again making a positive difference in the lives of others, as well as themselves.
Oh, and before that I have a meeting at a prep school with some staff who would also like to take a team of young people out on a trip.
3 lots of interviews and 2 meetings for 5 different trips. All involving young people who are keen to do more than just watch the TV, or play on the x-box, or hang round street corners. All involving young people who not only want to make a difference to others, and experience another culture and country, but recognise that they will be changed as well, and they are keen to embrace that opportunity.
I'm really looking forward to meeting all these young people; each one of them full of potential not just to do incredible things, but, through the transformative process that these trips always are, to move further down the path of discovering and becoming the person they are called / designed to be.
Tomorrow I am doing a similar lot of interviewing for young people at a school in West Sussex who are hoping to go to India, and then in the evening I am meeting the team of young people who have been selected to make up the team going to Addis Ababa to run the Women At Risk children's programme for a week. One of that team has already raised all her funds by doing pop-up restaurants all summer!
And then on Friday I am meeting a group of young people who aren't at school, and who have maybe made some life choices in the past that mean that their educational experiences weren't all good ones! But nonetheless, they would like to go to Uganda and get involved with some projects there, again making a positive difference in the lives of others, as well as themselves.
Oh, and before that I have a meeting at a prep school with some staff who would also like to take a team of young people out on a trip.
3 lots of interviews and 2 meetings for 5 different trips. All involving young people who are keen to do more than just watch the TV, or play on the x-box, or hang round street corners. All involving young people who not only want to make a difference to others, and experience another culture and country, but recognise that they will be changed as well, and they are keen to embrace that opportunity.
I'm really looking forward to meeting all these young people; each one of them full of potential not just to do incredible things, but, through the transformative process that these trips always are, to move further down the path of discovering and becoming the person they are called / designed to be.
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