Pioneering twinning celebrated

HULL will begin a week of celebrations on Thursday to mark its pioneering links with Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Gladys Cole, special guest from Freetown, will talk about the life and culture of her home city at the opening evening at the new Andrew Marvel College, which is partnered with the YMCA School in Freetown, one of nearly 30 educational links involving Hull schools.

Special prayers will be said in parishes across Hull on Freetown Sunday, October 20, and the Freetown Society will also hold its annual general meeting in public at the Guildhall on October 24.

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Society chairman, the Rev Allen Bagshawe, will lead a party of teachers and church-goers on a visit to Freetown this week.

Hull was the first English town or city to develop twinning link in the developing world when it joined with Freetown in 1980.

Mr Bagshawe said: “One of things Freetown children bring to us is enthusiasm for school.

“We’ve got super new facilities whereas theirs can be as basic as a blackboard and a piece of chalk.

“But they have this great enthusiasm to go to school because they know education is their possibility of making life count.”

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