Nursery World - Sea change

An impoverished school high in the Andes mountains now boasts the children's under-the-sea mural, thanks to a 23-year-old issue of Nursery World. Dan Levy reports Given the global reach of the internet, it may come as no surprise that last year a Nursery World project made it all the way to a classroom in the mountains of Peru. But this project arrived by post, with accompanying resources, and featured in Nursery World on 4 March 1982.

Given the global reach of the internet, it may come as no surprise that last year a Nursery World project made it all the way to a classroom in the mountains of Peru. But this project arrived by post, with accompanying resources, and featured in Nursery World on 4 March 1982.

The project was sent by Janet Kingsmill, a nursery nurse for over 30 years, at the request of her daughter Deborah who, with her husband Wesley Stephenson, was doing seven weeks' voluntary work in a school as part of their nine-month career break spent travelling the world.

The school, located in a desperately poor part of Huaraz, had been set up by the charitable organisation Bruce Peru, which works to get child labourers and very poor children into school.

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