5F on Safari

By: Helen Lee
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  • In May 2022, six women flew to Zambia for the trip of a lifetime. They were a diverse bunch which included two GPs, a retired administrator, a former judge and an audio describer but they all had one thing in common.......they had been in class 5F at Wycombe High School in the 1970s. The purpose of the trip was to visit their former classmate Anna, founder of the wildlife education charity 'Chipembele'. But visiting Anna was only part of the adventure as ‘the girls’ rekindled old friendships and discovered things in Zambia that tourists don’t usually see.
    2023
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Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
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  • Introduction: 5F on Safari

    Introduction: 5F on Safari
    Jan 17 2023

    Getting together on Zoom to reminisce.
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    10 mins
  • Episode 1: Anna

    Episode 1: Anna
    Jan 17 2023

    Anna Tolan and her husband Steve emigrated from England to Zambia in 1998 to realise their dream of running a conservation education programme for young Zambians. Having decided to base themselves in Mfuwe on the banks of the river Luangwa in eastern Zambia, they were fortunate to be given some land for their enterprise by the local Chief. In May 2001, they opened the Chipembele Wildlife Education Centre and two decades later, some of Anna’s former classmates made the 1000 mile journey to pay her (and Chipembele) a visit. In this first episode, Anna talks about Chipembele and about how much she enjoyed playing host to ‘the girls' she had been at school with.

     
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    9 mins
  • Episode 2: Bobbie

    Episode 2: Bobbie
    Jan 17 2023

    5F’s amazing Zambian adventure was organised by Bobbie Gristwood who has always excelled at arranging school reunions. In this episode, she talks about what the trip meant to her and why she thought she might not actually make it to Africa.

     
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    7 mins

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