Seddon painting and decorating apprentice Jordan Bibby and bricklayer Joel Crossman are in Uganda working with the One Brick at a Time initiative to build a teaching facility for the public health department at the Mountains of the Moon University. The facility will include lecture rooms, classrooms and consultation rooms.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – a chance to do something very different and give something back,” said Crossman. He will spend four weeks in Africa having opted to dedicate an additional fortnight of his holiday time to the trip.
Painting and decorating apprentice Bibby will be in Uganda for two weeks. He said: “It’s going to be a real experience and unlike anything I’ve ever done before.”
The two are part of a North West team that includes colleagues from Chester & District Housing Trust, Liverpool Hope University, Wulvern and Halton Housing Trust.
The One Brick at a Time initiative – which has been developed in partnership with Liverpool Hope University and the Voluntary Missionary Movement – has previously sent out teams to carry out other work to education facilities in Uganda, including renovating 27 primary school classrooms and a secondary school.
“This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for Joel and Jordan to share the skills they have acquired during their career with Seddon and to further their own development through the experience and the skills exchange with their Ugandan counterparts,” said Seddon Construction managing director Jonathan Seddon.
This is the second time that Seddon has given practical support to the One Brick at a Time project by enabling members of staff to work in Uganda. In autumn 2010, two workers from Seddon spent four weeks in the town of Fort Portal, Western Uganda, helping to refurbish a primary school damaged in a major earthquake.
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