Monday, 30 January 2012 14:45

Ten Swords students are leading the way for charitable causes this year with the volunteers edging ever closer to the target needed to embark on a two week trip of a lifetime to Uganda next month. The generous fifth-year-students - from Fingal Community College - have raised an impressive x15,000 for the Uganda Volunteer Programme set up by school teacher Ms Claire Scanlon in conjunction with Nurture Africa and will set off for the African nation on Friday, 10 February. The trip is expected to include a number of different tasks with the culmination of the fortnight’s volunteering to come from the building of a house for a Ugandan family. Speaking to the County Leader, she highlighted the value of the work carried out by charities such as Nurture Africa with a best practice specialist Paediatric HIV and Primary Health Centre having being recently opened in Uganda. “Nurture Africa’s new centre has the capacity to provide life-saving primary health and HIV services to 20,000 of the most vulnerable AIDS orphans and HIV infected children in Uganda,” she said. There will be a church gate collection, in aid of the trip, at St. Finian’s Church, Rivervalley, on Sunday, 5th February.