Roy Bridge joins with Faith to help Kenya
A FORMER Lochaber High School pupil is preparing for a trip of a lifetime, volunteering at the Live with Hope Clinic in Kenya.
Twenty-two-year-old Faith MacKintosh already has enough money for her travel expenses but with more fundraising she is hoping, with some help, to get another £700 for the clinic. She is using all her holiday allowance and taking leave from her full-time job to embark on the trip to Africa in June.
Faith said: ‘I’m really looking forward to it. I think it’s going to be a real eye opener and teach me how lucky we really are. Fundraising is going well – I am hoping to raise another £700 before I leave at the end of June.’
Faith is currently living in Edinburgh and works as a support worker for adults with disabilities. But as a member of St Margaret’s Church, Roy Bridge, Faith held a fundraising home-baking stall in Roy Bridge Hall to help raise money for the trip.
Along with eight other young people from the Argyll and Isles RC Diocese, Faith will be joining Bishop Brian McGhee to travel to the Live with Hope Clinic in Kericho, western Kenya, this summer. Travelling to Kenya for a month is a serious proposition and the group’s preparation will demand a lot of effort and will be hard work living in the most basic of conditions.
The clinic operates four departments, including voluntary counselling and testing, home-based care and heart clinic, and orphans and vulnerable children.
The clinic helps more than 3,000 children via support groups, family visits and residential care for the young children, while social workers and nurses visit the sick and give food to those too weak to work, as well as medical attention.