Queen Margaret Academy, Ayr

January 2009

The pupils of Queen Margaret Academy, Ayr, got an opportunity to demonstrate their responsibilities as global citizens.

As part of a PSHE lesson, they explored what responsibilities they have as citizens. They also read stories of people in Juba, Southern Sudan, who after twenty years of war, are trying to re-build their lives in this ‘fragile peace’. They read about Peter who is relied upon to support his mother and eight siblings. He is looking forward to going to a training centre to learn car mechanics.

The pupils wanted to give them hope so they took up SCIAF’s Christmas appeal to ‘shine a light in Sudan’. They sent for cardboard cut-outs of candles and wrote messages and prayers of hope. These messages will be sent by SCIAF to Sudan where they will be read out on Sudanese radio.