Monthly Archives: December 2011
Ghanaian children benefit from students’ donations
Luton Sixth Form College students have raised £500 to buy 1,000 bricks for care home for children in Ghana. The Student Council at the college has donated to the project through mat-to-fore, a charity that helps orphaned and abandoned children in the village of Kumasi. Fiona Beckford, who is a staff counselor at the college, saw the work that the charity does first hand when she visited the project in Ghana. She said: “Before the charity arrived, the children in …
Read more...Charitable siblings sleep under stars
Three charitable children are giving up their beds to spend a night sleeping rough at the annual St Albans sleep-out. Matthew Rabjohn, 10 and twin siblings Lucy and Andrew Rabjohn, 12 will be braving the cold at St Albans Abbey in the hopes that they will highlight the plight of the homeless. They are also aiming to raise money for LAMP, a youth homelessness charity in Luton where their mother Karen Rabjohn works. Lucy said: “We’re very excited to do …
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