Achievement Award - WOHAA News

WOHAA winners return from India, after a trip of a life time

August-September 2009

         

                                                                                                                                    

 

The Wings of Hope Achievement Award winners of 2008 have just returned from their fantastic trip of a lifetime to Chennai in South India. Team 'Ribbon in the Sky' from Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School were the overall winners of the award and enjoyed an exciting trip to India to see the projects that their fundraising is helping to support.

Their winning project included a dinner dance at the VIP lounge in Edgware where they raised funds through an auction, they also gained permission from the council and local residents to sleep rough on the streets of Northwood to put themselves in the position of those less fortunate. Their other endeavours included hugging strangers outside the O2 centre and tutoring younger students.

Their hard work and teamwork paid off and they had a fantastic time in India interacting with the students, teaching them new languages, maths skills and lots of singing and games. They also got involved in plenty of sport, playing the school's state champion volleyball team and teaching some of the boys rugby- a completely new sport for them. Shiv and Hamza decided to teach a class of older students about the credit crunch and as Hamza discovered, they could also learn from the experience, 'the experience of sharing our learning both taught others new skills and viewpoints as well as improving our own grasp of the material'. Their other activities involved accompanying the students to a science competition and teaching the younger students nursery ryhmes and English games. They also managed to fit in some sightseeing, shopping and sampling of local delicacies. They were excited to meet the children who they and other students had worked so hard to support. One team member Shiv Pabari said, 'India was amazing, a trip that I will never forget' whilst fellow Ribbon in the Sky team member Matthew Naughton enthused, ‘To pick out one moment is Impossible because it was a complete experience which will stay with me for the rest  of my life.’ Hamza summed up the boy's experience in India, 'It has been a great honour to work with the brilliant work that the charity does and I hope the school continues in the brilliantly successful manner it has been going.'

 

 

       

Read the boys' trip diaries on the links below:

 

Matthew's diary      

Sahil's diary  

Sachin's diary      

Hamza's Diary