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 the village had no clean drinking water, no access to an education and many would go for days on end without a meal. Thanks to the amazing work of the charity, the village now has two water pumps, the children are being given an education and fed one meal a day.”
A Luton Sixth Form College plaque was erected at the entrance of one of the homes to commemorate their charity work. Principal Simon Kitchener said: “Once again, the students of Luton Sixth Form College have demonstrated their compassion and a real awareness of the needs of children in less fortunate circumstances than their own, by prioritising this donation over social events for themselves.”
To donate or find out more go to www.mattofore.org.
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