A FORMER West Norfolk woman who scaled Mount Kilimanjaro to help poor African children has been given £500 towards her work by pupils of Lynn’s King Edward VII School.
With the pupils’ help, Jo Sweeney (20), of North Wootton, was able to travel to Tanzania and do voluntary work on a project to build a vocational training centre.
Jo, now studying psychology at Newcastle University, raised more than £2,000 this summer with her sponsored ascent of 19,000 feet high Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest freestanding mountain.
She took on the challenge in aid of the charity, Comrades of Children Overseas (COCO), which provides education for children in the poorest parts of Africa.
In a village near Songea, she did general labouring work on a new centre where children whose families cannot afford school fees will learn a trade to enable them to earn a living.
“The money raised by the pupils at KES has helped provide valuable equipment for the centre,” she said. She thanked pupils in Year Seven last year for their support. “It was so rewarding to see how much difference the money was making to such a small rural community,” said Jo.
The full article contains 202 words and appears in Lynn News Tuesday newspaper.
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* Source: Lynn News Tuesday
