Following a presentation in 2006, by Kibble pupils and staff attending, a ‘NEET’ (Not in Education, Employment, Training) Conference ‘A Partnership Approach’, we were invited to participate in a ‘Global Citizenship’ initiative culminating in a working trip to the shanty township of Belerio Estacio, Guayaquil, Ecuador and a four day environmental trip to the Galapagos Islands.
The purpose of the project was to forge relationships between Ecuadorian and Scottish schools, raise awareness of poverty in Scotland and also in a developing country, to develop an appreciation of the customs and cultural differences between the two countries and their people, and to raise awareness of Global Warming and the risk of extinction to the indigenous species of the Galapagos Islands.
