Sponsored abseil

Hi,

On April 17th we're abseiling off a disused railway bridge in Buxton, Derbyshire. It's over 80 feet high - that's over three average two story houses. Plus Connie is very frightened of heights so it will be extra difficult for her. We were meant to be doing an absiel off Baitings Dam however Yorkshire Water cancelled the event because of cracks in the wall therefore our places have been automatically transferred. We are looking forward to the challenge however we must make sure we get enough sponsors because we are hoping to raise around £300 each!

Name the duck!

Connie did a successful stall at the school's Easter fair. Name the giant fluffy duck. It went really well and the duck went to a little girl in nursery. It's name... quacky!

Unfortunately we didn't manage to get any pictures however here is Paris Hilton with a similar teddy! You see, everyones getting into the easter spirit.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the competition, it helped Connie to raise £65 pounds towards her fundraising.

Valentines Disco Success

The disco was a great success, everybody had a great time and it went really well. Below are some photos. We have a lot of sweets and chocolate left over so we are going to do a tuck shop at school. We would both like to say a great big thank you to everyone who helped us out. We couldn't have done it without you :)

Thanks Guys, hope everyone has had a nice half term!

Connie and Amy

Panic! At the Disco

Planning for the disco is getting a little bit complicated, because we're trying to work out if it will be financially viable with all the changes that are having to be made. Ticket prices etc. Hopefully we will manage to get the planning under control by next week. It seems a shame that we have put so much work into a project we originally thought would be one of our main fundraising events, but now, although it is still a big event, we are unsure if the profit is going to be worth the effort when we take away the costs away from the total.

Hopefully we can think of some more fundraising events to do in March!

Update on how we're doing

Okay so we'll give you an update on how it's going so far:

Connie and I have raised an overall sum of £436 out of £7000

So for the first couple of months, we're very proud of that :)

Today we were interviewed by a family for babysitting and the preparations for the Valentines Disco are well under way. We've got all the chaperones we need involved and we're about to start work on the playlist. We've decided the ticket price which is going to be £5.

Also we are going to start a raffle sometime in the very near future for which we already have over £400 worth of prizes.

Thanks for reading and we'll keep you updated :)

Happy New year

Happy new year to everyone, hope you have a good one!

About Namibia

We thought we would post a little bit of information about Namibia to give people a better understanding of where we are going but also so that we make sure we are up to date with the current demography of the area etc.

Namibia is in Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa. It has a hot desert climate and rain fall is sparse meaning that extended droughts occur. For this reason natural fresh water sources are very limited.

This is the Namibian flag and its capital and largest city is Windhoek. For many years it was known only as South West Africa, but it adopted the name Namibia, after the Namib Desert. Namibia is a very sparsely populated country, It is the second least densely populated country in the world, after Mongolia.

Another interesting fact, the most popular sport in Namibia is football. Also a bit about the wildlife, endangered species of Namibia include the wild dog and black rhino. Namibia has the largest population of cheetah not in National parks. There are only 21 airports in Namibia with paved runways!

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is considered as a killer disease and has decreased the working class and resulted in many orphans and this is causing the government to spend a lot of money in providing education,food,shelter and clothing for orphans. On our visit we may decide to build or renovate a new orphanage however we will be deciding at our next meeting what community projects we will be doing while out there, providing we fundraise enough money to go on our World Challenge trip!