Welcome to St Joan of Arc’s Udayan Mission 2025

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the St Joan of Arc Udayan Mission 2025, for our visit to India in February 2025. The 2025 mission will be the tenth trip students from the school have made to visit Udayan and marks the twentieth anniversary of the first trip back in 2005 .

We hope that our website will provide readers with an insight into Udayan and our travels through our daily diary written by us, the students, along with photographs.

The countdown begins…

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Let’s start by taking a look back at out 2024 trip

The group which went to India to visit Udayan included 10 students (Lola Boi, Michael Bradfield, Evangeline Delargy, Madeleine Drury, Charlotte McEvaddy, Emily McEvaddy, Ruby O’Connor, Isabel Perez-Pineda, Amy Rodrigues, Eva Wise) together with 2 teachers Liam Lynch, Becky Bowden and former student and trustee of City of Joy Aid, UK – Chris Mann.

LET’S MEET THE TEAM

The group who will be going to India to visit Udayan includes 10 students (Irene Almarcha, Olivia Barrows, Macie Boi, Amy Davis, Victoria Osorio, Carmen Perez Pineda, Catherine Pomeroy, Caitlin Prunty, Ola Szulc, Erin Walsh) together with 3 teachers Liam Lynch, Becky Bowden, Annabelle Barton and former student and chair of City of Joy Aid, UK – Chris Mann.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR JOURNEY

We look forward to telling you all about our time on a daily basis from India!

Welcome

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 2024 Udayan blog as the group of 10 students prepare for the ninth mission to Udayan in February 2024. Let's hear a little more about Udayan from the students of the 2019 trip.