Hey, Iʻm Alexander, I am a member of The Room, a youth group based at St. Andrew's Church Biggleswade. Iʼve just finished my A-levels and am currently working towards completing my TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course before we depart to South Africa. My main reason for going on this trip is to gain an insight into the poverty and grief that is present throughout many areas in sub-Saharan Africa. I feel that as we are lucky enough to have been bought up in the Western World with a roof over our heads and a good level of security, we often take it for granted and forget the reality of the world; there are around seven billion people living on the planet, over three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, and according to UNICEF 22,000 children die each day due to poverty, invisible and in silence, and this is a problem that needs to be openly addressed. Many of you will be familiar with these facts, but yet the problem isnʼt going to go away by itself. Iʼm not saying this trip can change anything huge or that it is remotely significant in the grand scheme of things, but it could mean the world to these orphans who feel invisible, unloved, and very very vulnerable. In a country where the aids rate is estimated to be 17.9% (and over 25% for school girls) and in a rural area of the country where healthcare is not great, simply visiting the community really does make a difference to the individuals.
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