The 12 students and two lecturers are raising funds to embark on the 'wilderness challenge' to Namibia in October.
They will be working with Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA) to renovate a rural school and helping teachers, local farmers and the surrounding communities to collaborate and share resources efficiently.
Project Namibia was inspired by early years lecturer Liz Maddison’s experiences, after she made the journey herself in 2013. She travelled to Anixab Damaraland, in the Kunene region of Namibia, to work on a project to stop elephants from trampling crops and monitor their movements.
‘2013 was a milestone for me,' she said. 'A friend wanted to go to Africa too. This was a tester, two weeks of wild camping in the desert supporting elephant-human relations. I was so lucky because on my trip it just happened that we worked in a school there, so I wanted to go back. Luckily, in the position of teacher you have the opportunity to share that with students.’
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