Clyde Valley’s Skill Force Uganda adventure has started. After a 10 hour flight and an overland journey that took several hours, Instructor Paul Craig and fifth year pupils, Ryan Burrell, George Wilson and Jamie Semple have arrived safely in the village of Jinja on the banks of the River Nile.

The Clyde Valley group is part of a 7 student team, all Skill Force Prince’s Award Winners, who will spend the next 12 days painting rooms in the village primary school and helping to install a new oven. The boys have been sponsored by the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund, a trust established to honour one of the best friends of both Princes William and Harry and who tragically lost his life in a road accident at an early age.

The Clyde Valley team prepares to leave Glasgow Airport at the start of their Ugandan adventure (from left to right): Paul Craig, George Wilson, Ryan Burrell and Jamie Semple.