City waitress running Coventry Half Marathon to tackle poverty in Ghana
- By Alan Harris | Coventry Telegraph - UK
- Jan 27, 2014
- 1 min read
United Kingdom: A Coventry woman is running the Coventry Half Marathon to help tackle poverty in Ghana.
Farrell Hackett, 22, will travel to Ghana next month to work on the development programme for 12 weeks.
She will team up with Ghanaian volunteers to tackle some of the problems facing the local community, after receiving a place on the government funded International Citizen Service (ICS).
ICS allows young people aged 18-25 to contribute to long-term development projects in countries like Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Nepal.
The scheme offers young people the chance to develop personally and learn about team working and leadership on projects that are of genuine value to communities around the world.
On return to the UK, ICS volunteers undertake an ‘Action at Home Project’, ensuring that their new skills also benefit their local communities.
English Literature graduate Farrell, who works at Pizza Hut , in Walsgrave , said: “My fundraising is a way of making sure developing countries can continue to benefit from the work of future volunteers, so it’s vital I reach my target. I’ve been training really hard and am doing other fundraising activities such as face painting days at the restaurant I work in and car boot sales.”
To sponsor Farrell visit www.justgiving.com/Farrell-Hackett. To find out more about ICS or to apply, visit www.volunteerics.org or call 0208 780 7400.
Source: Coventrytelegraph.net
