Step into another world

 Xtreme Teams are new for 2010. They are for you if you would like to stretch yourself a little bit further than on our other projects.

They are for you if you like the idea of sleeping in a thatched mud hut, sharing the local food with your hosts and sitting around a stove or fire shariing stories in the warm African night air. There are no swimming pools on an Xtreme Teams trip, but we can promise that you will be immersed in another way of life.

 There will be fewer of the usual creature comforts in general. Also you will be spending more time at work on the building site - we want to make the very most of your time on these vital projects. However the rewards will be even greater than usual: you will be living and working closely with local people and experiencing their life from the inside. Most importantly you will be transforming the lives of some of the neediest people in the world!

 

Xtreme Project 1

Kotomor, Uganda

Giving childhood back to Uganda's displaced boys and girls

We are working with the mission organisation YWAM to build a school for children in an ‘Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp. These are children and families whose lives have been torn apart by the brutal guerrilla warfare of the Lord’s Resistance Army over the few years.

The aim is to reduce children’s trauma and stress. As well as a vital education, the school will offer opportunities for them to see life through new eyes, through counselling, fun, sport and education. Read more.

 

Xtreme Project 2

Ndiadzo, Zimbabwe

Education for the nation's forgotten children

We will be building a primary school building for the village of Ndiadzo, on the Mozambique border. It will offer room to teach the 6-700 pupils currently being taught outdoors or in makeshift huts. The village want permanent school buildings and have done their best, baking local bricks. But they have no money to buy cement and steel for a permanent structure. We will be spending most of our time hard at work on the building site, to provide them a school building as quickly as possible. When it is finished the local church will provide teachers. Read more.