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Article: Teachers' mercy trip.
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- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2006
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By Mike Russell
A GROUP of South Yorkshire teachers have returned from an aid mission to earthquake-hit Kashmir.
Twelve teachers from South and West Yorkshire travelled to Bagh in Azad Kashmir, one of the worst-hit areas by the quake over a year ago.
The group taught English and IT to adult learners in tents put up on the site of the Girls' College in Bagh.
The Sheffield-based Kashmir Earthquake Relief Fund is raising money to rebuild the school.
Teacher Marion Codd said: "Everyone had a story of loss beneath the smiles and there was deep sadness. We got emotionally involved and grieved for the losses of people who were ...