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Lucy Ellis - Liason Officer
Third year geography student at Nottingham University.
I’ve just travelled back from Africa where I spent three weeks researching in a small village in southern Kenya. I was studying for my dissertation, focussing on the issue of women’s education and dependency in marriage. We were pretty much living in a mud hut for three weeks; no running water, no electricity and thousands of spiders and scorpians! It was a crazy experience! Yet all the villagers were so friendly and helpful with the project; by the end we felt like villagers ourselves!
Which is kind of why I wanted to get involved with Dreams of Africa. Having been out and lived like an African, I’ve grown a fondness for the continent and want to do more for the people there; they helped me with my project so now it’s my turn to help them with theirs!