Eight Irish students from transition year will be traveling to the Namibia/Angolan border for a humanitarian expedition in February 2024. The focus will be on malaria prevention, education and conservation. The students will travel throughout the country and camp near rural communities to deliver malaria prevention mosquito nets, glasses for elderly villagers with cataracts and get involved in a food and conservation program. They will be traveling with The Kingsley Holgate foundation (Focus on malaria prevention, right to sight and conservation:

https://kingsleyholgate.com/articles/afrika-odyssey-expedition/) as part of an 18 month expedition they are on. Funds raised will go to the Kinglsey Holgate Foundation (to purchase nets, food, glasses, etc.) and for a school in Uganda called the HELP School Masese (https://help-uganda.com/?fbclid=IwAR0LiT1BPZIkhgjguQM8Eb9mm_ed689NMruAbyiLuOwmPVHXfWuXEJ1mh2E) where we are helping to fund the construction of a new building to house an additional 150 students who currently cannot currently access the school due to lack of space and teachers. They get hot meals and an education and a path to University with our support, without it they will remain selling whatever they can on the streets and remain in poverty.

Please note, all funds raised will go to the charities involved (this includes the school which is run by a charity) and all costs for the expedition itself (flights, meals, transport, camp equipment, accommodation) is being covered by the students and their families.