Kenya Project
| In 2007 Laura Smith went with a group of sixth-formers on a FulchrumChallenge project helping Kenyan villagers in the Loita hills to build onto their school. You may try either exercise 1 or 2 – exercise 1, below, is shorter than exercise 2, according to how much time you have spare. |  |
1 How many of them were there, altogether, who went to Kenya?
2 Laura didn’t get on with a small number of people in the group. What adjective had they clearly used to describe her?
3 What two points are made to explain the high level of emotionalism during the students’ time away?
4 When did they drive through the Maasai Mara Game Reserve?
5 What three elements made up this expedition?
6 Why did some girls find the project more physically demanding than the boys did?
7 What adjective does Laura use of the Rift Valley where they trekked to?
8 What difference did they experience between the adults’ and the children’s attitude towards them?
9 Does Laura accept that this project was ‘just a jaunt’?
10 Does Laura see herself doing this again?
11 What points does she make about the experience long term?
12 What two areas does she think this kind of project helps you find out about?