Community
Community Fair—Beat the drums By Lydia Astill Chair, PA Dover On Saturday, 11 February the Dover Campus was alive with all the sights and sounds of the Community Fair. This year’s theme of Beat the Drum was brought to life by a variety of talented musicians from the student body and our community friends. Drums punctuated the action of the day as the event warmed up; the Music Department’s new Drumline, sponsored by the PA Dover, was put to good use all day as the drummers roved throughout campus to make a noise. With clear skies and a steady stream of visitors, the fair was all about delicious homemade cakes, great international food, circus hoopla, shopping, watery fun, endless games and attractions and bouncing. Lots and lots of bouncing. And, it was about UWCSEA’s Global Concerns. The Dover Parents’ Association stages the Community Fair each year in order to assist more than 50 Global Concerns
projects with their fund raising goals. We have so many parents to thank as well as our generous sponsors and all the students and staff who worked so hard to make the day a great success. I would like to extend a special thanks to the Sodexo team for their unsung and endless support on the day. When the counting was done, we realised $46,000 for Global Concerns. And we really did beat the drums. “Overall, this year’s Community Fair was both the first and a very successful one for Phi Phi Global Concern. The GC was only set up a few months ago, and we look forward to having this much success in the future. We set up a tie-dye stall, which the whole team helped to organise. In order to advertise our GC and encourage students and parents to come by, we made shirts for ourselves and wore them on the day of the stall. We all had so much fun and look forward to being a part of the fair next year!” Phi Phi Global Concern
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