A TEACHER from Almondbury High School and Language College is travelling to Equador next month to take part in an environmental project with a native tribe.
Sandrine Beddou, who is French, has been working at the school for the past year.
Pupils took part in an organised "flurry" this weekend as part of Almondbury Gala to raise money for the trip.
In last year's event - the first of its kind - about 100 people took part in a four-mile run around Almondbury, raising about £1,000 for the Laura Crane Trust.
Sandrine will be part of a six-strong team who will work with the Shuar tribe.
The project aims to help develop the tribe and open it to the rest of the world without jeopardizing its culture and identity.
Work already completed as part of the project has included building a children's play field to keep younger children closer to the village, a path through the forest to the waterfalls to collect water and making a vegetable garden for all to use.
The main aim is to build a school and make education more accessible to children.
Also planned is a dictionary to translate the Shuar language into Spanish. It will also be eventually translated to French and English.
