One of the most commanding speakers
in Britain is coming to help Sam Hunt
and Sandhurst School 6th-Formers
take more smiles to Rwanda

Hands of Hope

An outstanding public evening
on Thursday 12th November 2009

in aid of the Sandhurst School Sixth Form Mission
to Rwanda in Spring 2010
 

7.30-9.30pm at Sandhurst School, Owlsmoor Road, Sandhurst GU47 0SD

All proceeds go to help the Mission: £10 donation per head is suggested
Please make cheques to "Sandhurst School". To book a place,
please contact Alison Whalley at Sandhurst School by

E-mail to alison.whalley@sandhurst.bracknell-forest.sch.uk
or Tel 01344 467252

Hugh Gibbons’
Wiser Writer
and
Time-Outs for
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are now
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companies

to buy in

autumn 2009 -

all fees go
to the

school mission
to Rwanda

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Agenda

7.30pm Welcome -
and hopeful messages

Growing Hope for
Rwanda's Children
led by Sam Hunt
Assistant Head Teacher
and leader of RE, PSHE and Citizenship Studies, Sandhurst School

A Matter of Respect
Professor Michael Bagshaw sets the scene for fellow medical student...

How Health Helps Bring
Hope to Countries in Conflict
led by Lt General Louis Lillywhite
Surgeon General of the
Defence Medical Services

Interval

Beyond Guernica:
an Art Gallery of Hope
out of Civil War
led by Hugh Gibbons
Conductor of Just1

Afterword and
some unusual Awards!

Sandhurst School in Bracknell Forest, Berkshire, are making a remarkable contribution to the history of humanity.

To further their education in holocaust studies required by the National Curriculum, they've set up a project called Reaching Rwanda. This provides great practical help for survivors and orphans of the genocide there - from sending some to university, to water facilities for a village, to buying animals and sewing machines.  As important, they show the much-needed love, respect and caring that tells the villagers around Ntarama that the rest of world has not forgotten them. It's an all-school-involving project, which has attracted strong financial support from many wellwishers.

To add to the funds for 2010, Bracknell-based Hugh Gibbons and the school have arranged this exceptional evening of briefing, insight and discussion.

The programme features fine speakers, topics relevant to many people, and plenty of food for thought - and talk.

The scene will be set by Samantha Hunt, Assistant Head of the School who has led the way on Reaching Rwanda. She’ll speak of the aims and outcomes of the project, and cover her own beliefs in the importance of exploring genocide in the curriculum, activities which last year gained her a prestigious Anne Frank Award.  

Respect is a subject close to the heart of another local, Mike Bagshaw.  Mike is a high flier - Visiting Professor at King’s College London, having recently retired as Director of Aviation Medicine. For 12 years he led the team of Occupational and Aviation Medical Physicians at British Airways.  Prior to this he was a Consultant at St George’s Hospital London, as a general practitioner in Crowthorne, and at RAE Farnborough.  This followed a 16-year career in the Royal Air Force as a medical officer, fast-jet pilot, flying instructor at Cranwell and  Senior Medical Officer Pilot at Farnborough.  

Then another A 3-Star speaker changes the direction of thinking. 

Lieutenant General Louis Lillywhite is Surgeon General of the Defence Medical Services.  He’s therefore the top military doctor in this country – with an outstanding record as a clinician in cutting-edge units in the Armed Forces.  And he now has a particularly tough role in co-ordinating our Army, Navy and RAF medical teams in their many demanding yet unsung roles and settings behind the headlines.

Louis will speak on the key subject of health in preventing countries and communities avoid or manage the consequences of conflict - whether in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Northern Ireland or Rwanda. And he'll look at the role of military medical services, often working alongside local and international NGOs and other humanitarian teams

Finally, Hugh Gibbons will explore some ways in which civil war has influenced art and artists - a first-rehearsal for a talk he's been invited to give to NADFAS on the Costa del Sol next April. Hugh is a CAFOD Portsmouth Schools & Media Volunteer. And he's the founder and sole member of Just1, an organisation he set up to help with humanitarian work.  His current project is StandUp Against Poverty, in which a thousand schools are expected to take part in October 2009.

To book a place, please contact the school:
E-mail alison.whalley@sandhurst.bracknell-forest.sch.uk
or Tel 01344 467252

This comes to you with best wishes.

PS  And make a note to...

The 2009 Just1 StandUps Against Poverty
for a couple of minutes anytime that
suits you on 16-18 October 2009