Amy’s about to realise her Tanzanian dreams

AN African adventure beckons for a teenager who is following her dreams to teach in Tanzania.

Amy Smith will spend four months working with classes of 80 children at a school on the slopes on Mount Kilimanjaro this summer - a far cry from her home on a Bostock farm.

The 18-year-old said: “The children walk between five and six miles a day to school and there are between 60 and 80 children per class - they’re really big. Continue Reading…

Friends in high places

EIGHT friends from Wirral who are all celebrating their fiftieth birthday this year are marking the occasion by climbing Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro.

Ian Strettle, from Bromborough, is leading the challenging expedition and the team will start their ascent on February 18.

At 5,895 metres high, Kilimanjaro is the tallest free-standing mountain rise in the world and the team plan to take the more difficult Macheme route to the summit. Continue Reading…

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