Sask. students’ Kenya service trip canceled due to ongoing violence
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In the wake of the terrorist shooting at a college in northeast Kenya that left 147 people dead, a group of Saskatchewan students have canceled their service learning trip to the country which was two years in the making.
Thirty-three students, family and staff – primarily from Aberdeen and Saskatoon – were supposed to leave Friday morning to stay in a village in the Masai Mara district in Kenya. As part of a ‘Me to We’ and Education First (EF) educational tours program, the group would help build a medical centre in the area.
EF tours sent out an e-mail Thursday morning telling families the trip was still on, but by 8 p.m., fearing violence in the country could endanger the group, the company contacted families and canceled the trip.
“I was really excited because it was the night before and I was super prepared, super ready and super stoked about this trip but then it was suddenly canceled,” student Renee Lepage, 15, said. “Seeing Africa, seeing the people and helping them would be really neat for me.”
