From BP Sports:
Four members of the Campbellsville (KY) University Lady Tigers basketball team -- Kristi Ensminger of Kingstown Springs, Tenn., Juliana Brown of Antioch, Tenn., Maranda Wilkinson of Belvidere, Tenn. and Shabree Hunter of Lake Worth, Fla. -- along with former Lady Tigers coach Donna Wise and her husband George, Joanna Turpin, a Campbellsville native and student at the University of Kentucky, and Connie Alden of Titusville, Fla., spent May 5-19 in Zambia and South Africa.
Wise, who is chair of the university’s department of human performance and assistant professor of physical education and athletics, organized and coordinated the trip with Lonnie and Fran Turner, who have worked in Zambia since 1976.
The Turners are associated with Partners in Development, a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to assisting rural African communities in their efforts to improve their quality of life in areas of clean water, health care and education.
The women’s basketball program at Campbellsville University has supported PID with uniforms and equipment for several years, Wise said. She took a group to Brazil several years ago, and the Turners encouraged her to do the same in Zambia.
“This trip gave these students actual hands-on servant leadership opportunities,” Wise said. “It was a life-changing experience in many ways for all of us. Most of the people in this area live on 50 cents a day.”
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