A HIGH school teacher has come back from a church-based mission trip to Uganda and wants to thank the organisations and residents who supported her trip.

Sue Johnson, teaching assistant in Middlewich High School, travelled with a group of volunteers with the main aim of the visit being to help Nyakabungo school children in one of the most deprived areas of the country, Kanungu.

Sue said: "I would just like to say, through The Guardian, a huge thank you to all of the local companies that donated towards this mission trip.

Sue’s trip was supported by Rowland’s in Hartford, Morrisons, ASDA, Wilko, B & M, and Hallmason Design Limited, a structural engineering company based on the Industrial Estate in Winsford.

Sue added: “Their generosity and support was very much appreciated by the children of Nyakabungo Primary School.

“They were overjoyed on receiving the most basic items such as pens, pencils, rulers, and crayons and I would find it difficult to describe the excitement when they tried on the school clothes and shoes that we had taken over. “

“I think I can safely say we all felt that to be able to go on this visit was such a privilege whilst being a truly humbling experience.

“A teacher called us back before we entered a classroom and quietly thanked us for coming so far to show that we cared.

“She blessed us for being there but in actual fact it has been our team that have been blessed.”