Apr 23 - St Anne’s School ‘Jog for Sierra Leone’ Raises £1,200
St Anne’s School took part in their annual ‘Fitness and Health challenge’ on Friday 20th March. Pupils, teachers, auxiliary staff, parents and friends power-walked or jogged around the athletics track for forty-five minutes. A warm-up session was led by Natalie Hill (Choose Fitness Instructor). The pupils (and staff) were encouraged to do regular exercise and eat healthily in the lead-up to the event.
The event was organised to raise funds for local charity "Action4schools-Sierra Leone" which provides water wells, latrines, school essentials, teacher training and refurbishes/builds schools in Sierra Leone. The charity also raises awareness here in Gibraltar and, in particular, encourages children to take an active role in support of needy children. The House and Vice Captains of the school raised funds through sponsorship, all other pupils brought a donation on the day of the event, 6V donated their charity collection box and a group of year 7 boys took it upon themselves to sell their art work to friends and family and raise money for this charity.
The event raised an amazing £1,200 which, together with last year's amount of £1,400, is enough to pay for new water well at one of the five primary schools which are currently being refurbished bringing clean, safe water to hundreds of children in the village of Yele.
St Anne's school would like to thank Natalie Hill, Albert Tellez and the GSLA team, Jon Segui (Heart Starterz, First Aid), Nathalie Lallemand for her photos of the event and ‘Saccone and Speed’ for their donation of 400 water bottles for the event.
For more information on the charity please visit www.action4schools.gi or call 57631000 Lizanne Pardo Gomez (Head of Physical Education, St Anne’s School)
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