A TEACHER from Chepstow has just returned from three months in Ghana, where he worked as acting head teacher for a rural community school, building a new library for the pupils.

Paul Shewell built and equipped the school library during his visit, which he dedicated to his great uncle, Les Howells of Mitchel Troy, who died recently.

During his visit to Africa, Paul also arranged for the painting and decoration of various classrooms and school buildings, distributed donated toys and gifts to the children in nursery and kindergarten classrooms, oversaw the construction of a school dining and assembly hall and gave teacher training sessions in the use of the library and the use of all the donated teaching resources.

He also found time to catch up on events back in the Forest and Wye Valley with a copy of the Review.