CARLOS CALLEJO DELGADO (C07) was elected Overseas Representative at Goodricke Hall of Residence in York University. [posted 11 April 2008]

STEFAN TARNOWSKI (C06) is in his second year at Pembroke College, Oxford, reading Oriental Studies, but is spending 2007-2008 at Damascus University - in Summer 2008, he will be with UNHCR in Syria, helping refugees from Iraq; there are 1.5million Iraqi refugees in Syria. [posted 11 April 2008]

FRANCESCA SCOTT (A03) was recently awarded a Postgraduate Research Scholarship at the University of Warwick, to study a PhD in early feminism. The topic will examine the contradictory nature of literature by women writers in the eighteenth century. [posted 28 May 2008].

EMILY LEEMING (A07) and CAMILLA DU BOULAY (A07) helped at the Francis Maria Libermann School in Zanzibar from early January 2008 to 1 March 2008.  This school has a special link to Ampleforth through Face-Faw, and Emily and Camilla were the first volunteers to help there from Ampleforth.  On leaving, they wrote [1 March 2008] "Very sad, we left this morning! Had a lovely time there, very depressed to have left now! got a lovely farewell from all the students on yesterday, it was really special. We are hoping to go back in a couple of years" [posted 1 March 2008]

CHARLIE SPARROW (EW07) and LAURA WILLIS (A07) are in Tanzania. Charlie writesL "Laura Willis and I have just finished a month of teaching in a secondary school primarily established for oprhans, just outside Dar Es Salaam, called NEw Horrizon HIgh School. It was a fantastci four weeks and during that time we visited houses of both students and teachers and were welcomed into the homes with the greatest hospitality-something that Tanzanians seem to be very good at!!!. The director of the school, who owns an engineering company and puts any profit from that work into improving the opportunities for orphans in Tanzania, has begun work on building a new school in a better location and with better facilities but as youcan appreciate funds are the main setback in such a poor area! He has spoken at great length with us about the problems caused by teh huge number of orphans on the street of Tanzania, quoting the result of a survey that suggests that there will over 4.5 million orphans in Tanzania by 2010." [posted 2 March 2008}

RUARI CAHILL (EW07) and HECTOR TULLOCH (EW07) have been working in early 2008 in Ghana. Later Ruari Cahill intends to travel with RORY MARSDEN (H07) in South-East Asia.

You can follow in shortened version a drive down the road South from Addis Abada in Ethiopia to Sodo in a video filmed from a car, seeing all the scenes of people and African houses on the road. The Road to Sodo. It is this road that ASHLEY ETCHELLS-BUTLER (C07) took on about 10 April 2008 beginning an-eight week period in Sodo, Southern Ethiopia teaching English at the Abba Pascal Girls School, a school run by the Capuchin friars. [posted 18 May 2008, amended 21 May 2008]. Ashley has been offered a place at Warwick University to read English Literature and Creative Writing in October 2007. [posted 18 May 2008]

LAURA CRIDDLE (A07), HUGO PHILLIPS (T07), JULIAN MULLER (H05) and GALCERAN DE SARRIERA (O07) worked in Ethiopia with the Missionaries of Charity [the nuns of Mother Theresa] in July and August 2007. Laura Criddle and Hugo Phillips returned on 13 August 2007; Julian Muller (who worked in Ethiopia in 2006) and Galceran de Sarriera are still working there. [posted 19 August 2007].  Hugo has returned to Israel, after spending time in France.

JAMES JEFFREY (C97) ran in the 38th New York Marathon on 4 November 2007, raising funds to help St Marys Tsion School in Addis Abada, Ethiopia - he worked in Ethiopia in 2000 and again in later years.

LORENZO SPITZY (C07) joined the Austrian army on 7 January 2007, to begin his six months service.  He has reported that it is a good experience and is been much enjoyed [posted 10 January 2008]. Subsequently he was ill and left the army [posted 19 May 2008]

ALASTAIR McTOUGH (C07) and MITCHELL McTOUGH (C07) returned to Easingwold in North Yorkshire in August 2008 after spending nearly two months in Kenya. Also there with them was FREDDIE BATTLE (H07). At one time they were skuba-diving on the Kenyan coast. Alastair has gained a place at Leicester University; Mitchell at London University to read Philospohy and Theology.

MITCHELL McTOUGH (C07) left London University and is now working in Kenya. FREDDIE BATTLE (H07) left Leicester University and is now in Australia. [posted 18 May 2008]

MAGNUS ARBUTHNOTT (O07) is doing a chain-saw course in Scotland.

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Since 1998, Ampleforth has participated in a remote village in northern Thailand called Thabon, at the invitation of the Catholic Secondary School of St John's College and University of Bangkok. Each year a few boys or girls from Ampleforth have helped in the school in Thabon.

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