By Emma Streatfield
A SWINDON woman will spend three months helping children in one of the poorest countries in the world.
Rachel White, of Harrow Close, Stratton has been accepted as a volunteer for a community project with children in Cambodia for the registered charity Globalteer.
Many of these children are orphaned or living on the streets.
The 25-year-old said: “It’s a completely different world out there and I hope I can make a difference.”
Rachel will head out to Cambodia on January 30 and return on April 12.
She will be working with Cambodia Kids, which is involved in various projects – a day centre for street children, a children’s orphanage and a free education programme for children.
Rachel will be assigned to help out on one of these projects when she arrives.
In recent years, Cambodia has seen decades of upheaval and conflict.
The radical communist Khmer Rouge party, under their leader Pol Pot, seized power in 1975 after years of guerrilla warfare.
Under his regime over the next three years an estimated 1.7m Cambodians died some from exhaustion or starvation, but many from torture and execution.
Today, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world and relies heavily on international aid.
Rachel said the consequences of this poverty were being felt by the country’s young people.
She said: “Because the parents can’t afford to keep them, their children are put into orphanages so they get a better chance.”
She said she went to Australia on a gap year, but had always wanted to do some humanitarian work abroad.
So when she found out she was starting her new job in April, she decided to take the opportunity to look on the Globalteer website.
Globalteer is a not for profit UK charity that serves to help those in need. It places volunteers overseas to work on projects that need help, but in order to volunteer on the project donation money has to be raised.
This money will be used to help in the building of schools and provide children with meals to allow them to attend school rather than working or begging.
To raise the necessary funding, Rachel will be running or walking 200 miles in 20 days on a treadmill.
She has also organised a quiz for 70 of her family and friends at The GW pub, on Station Road, opposite the railway station on Saturday.
To donate to Rachel’s campaign email rachelwhite84@hotmail.com.
Rachel White, of Harrow Close, Stratton has been accepted as a volunteer for a community project with children in Cambodia for the registered charity Globalteer.
Many of these children are orphaned or living on the streets.
The 25-year-old said: “It’s a completely different world out there and I hope I can make a difference.”
Rachel will head out to Cambodia on January 30 and return on April 12.
She will be working with Cambodia Kids, which is involved in various projects – a day centre for street children, a children’s orphanage and a free education programme for children.
Rachel will be assigned to help out on one of these projects when she arrives.
In recent years, Cambodia has seen decades of upheaval and conflict.
The radical communist Khmer Rouge party, under their leader Pol Pot, seized power in 1975 after years of guerrilla warfare.
Under his regime over the next three years an estimated 1.7m Cambodians died some from exhaustion or starvation, but many from torture and execution.
Today, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world and relies heavily on international aid.
Rachel said the consequences of this poverty were being felt by the country’s young people.
She said: “Because the parents can’t afford to keep them, their children are put into orphanages so they get a better chance.”
She said she went to Australia on a gap year, but had always wanted to do some humanitarian work abroad.
So when she found out she was starting her new job in April, she decided to take the opportunity to look on the Globalteer website.
Globalteer is a not for profit UK charity that serves to help those in need. It places volunteers overseas to work on projects that need help, but in order to volunteer on the project donation money has to be raised.
This money will be used to help in the building of schools and provide children with meals to allow them to attend school rather than working or begging.
To raise the necessary funding, Rachel will be running or walking 200 miles in 20 days on a treadmill.
She has also organised a quiz for 70 of her family and friends at The GW pub, on Station Road, opposite the railway station on Saturday.
To donate to Rachel’s campaign email rachelwhite84@hotmail.com.
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