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Last broadcast on Sat, 25 Jul 2009, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
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Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison has often made his journeys on horseback and chose Albania for a recent trek. Although situated in the middle of Europe, this little known nation offers unspoilt countryside, great hospitality from locals and a glimpse into a time and place before tourism development takes hold.
An award from the citizenship charity, Giving Nation, enabled pupils from Rushcliffe School in Nottingham to travel to Cameroon to learn about the Baka people and the work of the Rainforest Foundation. They stayed in a Baka village - seeing how they build huts, how the local school is run and even helped villagers with fishing.
Journalist Jane Owen, who accompanied them, and pupil Bex Bailey say the trip gave an insight into how life is changing for the indigenous people.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE
Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE,
Explorer, Conservationist, Broadcaster, Film Maker, Author, Lecturer, Campaigner, Farmer
Robin is also an equestrian traveller. He is a Founder and President of Survival International, an organisation supporting tribal peoples. Robin has participated in and written about several equestrian adventures in Spain, in Rajastan, in China and New Zealand. His latest trek was in one of Europe’s least known countries; Albania. With his wife Louella, he rode from the north to the south a country he calls Land of Eagles, which is also the title of his latest book.
Land of Eagles: Riding Through Europe's Forgotten Country
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN-10: 1845118553
ISBN-13: 978-1845118556
Bex Bailey
Bex Bailey is a lower sixth student at Rushcliffe School in Nottingham. Bex and her friends started a Citizenship Club mainly to raise money for worthy causes. They gave charity concerts, organised coffee mornings, sales and gave presentations… Last year they were encouraged to enter the annual competition run by Giving Nation. The got to the finals, this year they entered again and won. The six prize winners were awarded a trip to Cameroon to meet the Baka people, rainforest hunter gatherers sometimes known as pygmies. They went at the end of April for about eight days, accompanied by three teachers and the gardening presenter and journalist, Jane Owen.
Giving Nation supports and promotes secondary schools learning about, and involvement in, charity and community action and offers free educational materials including a Giving Nation Pack, the Giving Nation Challenge and runs the Giving Nation Awards recognising charity and community activity in UK secondary schools. The Giving Nation free educational materials, the grant-based Challenge and the awards aim to meet Citizenship curriculum targets whilst developing the school’s activities around giving to others.
Jane Owen
Jane Owen is a gardening writer and presenter. As a writer, Jane was invited on a trip to Cameroon by Giving Nation, an active citizenship project of education charity The Citizenship Foundation.
The Citizenship Foundation is an independent education and participation charity, founded in the 1980s, that exists to encourage and enable individuals to play an effective role in democratic society.
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Sat 25 Jul 200910:00
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