North Andover Students Go to Peru for 'Global Leadership.'

NORTH ANDOVER, MA — When students from North Andover High School students were selected to attend a conference about global leadership they traveled nearly 3,500 miles to do it, according to the Eagle-Tribune.

The trip was through Education First, a Cambridge-based organization that provides educational travel for schools, the newspaper reports. The students left for Lima, Peru on March 11 and returned March 20. They were joined by four students from Michigan.

The North Andover group attended a student leadership conference in Lima, Peru, along with nearly 400 other young people from around the world, according to the paper. The theme was global citizenship.

Madeleine Ghikas, of North Andover, was among just eight participants who were recognized for their contributions to the conference. Ghikas created a video about global citizenship, she said.

The students who attended the conference worked in groups of eight. Each group worked on a particular problem.Of the five groups that were chosen as finalists for the top honor, three included North Andover students, the newspaper reports.

The students told the Eagle-Tribune they got their hands dirty helping to build a dormitory for a school. Getting to school is an ordeal for many Peruvian students who have to walk 16 hours to get a bus and then ride for another five hours before getting to school, the newspaper reports.

For more on this story read the Eagle-Tribune.

Courtesy photo of North Andover students with students from Lima, Peru.