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Zambia

	In 2009 Hurstmere School sent its first group of staff and students to the Chilanga area of Zambia, as part of a Tag Rugby Trust coaching programme. To find out more about the Tag Rugby Trust visit their website at: www.tagrugbytrust.co.uk
		Staff and pupils from Hurstmere returned to the same area of Zambia in 2011 to continue the work started in 2009. On both tours the students coached tag rugby to various students from a number of schools in the area. The students being coached were from Year 5 and from various deprived backgrounds. The schools we worked with ranged from Government funded to charity run orphanage schools.
	The Zambian students shared a common factor; their desire to be coached by our students and to take part in the tournament at the end of the week. On both tours, Hurstmere students had the opportunity to come out of their comfort zones and work with some of the most underprivileged children in Africa. Hurstmere's students and the staff involved have had life changing experiences and will remember their time in Zambia forever.
		Hurstmere School is now running a tour to Zambia every two years with the next tour taking place in July 2013. It is a very important time for Hurstmere and the Tag Rugby Trust, as February 2012 will see the first Hurstmere School staff visiting Zambia to spend a week working in some of our target schools in the Chilanga area of Zambia. To find out more about the tours and Zambia, click on the links on the right hand side.
	"There were kids with no shoes, and in one classroom (less than half the size as the ones in Hurstmere) there were sixty children- three at a desk that should normally sit one. At one point, they were being served what looked like runny porridge- it was being slopped on their plates from a rusty cup. The kids were eating with their hands and using sticks as spoons." Diary extract from one of the students who visited Zambia in 2011
	"In the morning my group taught at Chilanga Basic School, a Government School with many poor children. Later in the afternoon, we taught at Guardian Angels, a school for the ophans All the children who went to this school either had no parent, one parent or their parents were dying of AIDS. " Diary extract from one of the students who visited Zambia in 2011.	Click on the picture above to play one of our videos showing the work which was carried out on the 2011 tour

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