Goals: To send a group of 10 young volunteers to the slum areas of Brazil for two weeks
Funding: The trip will cost about 16,000, which is being raised through fundraising activities
It had always been art student Kym Fletcher's dream to help underprivileged children abroad. But she never thought that it would be possible until she shared her vision with youth workers during a session at the Pastures Youth Club in Walthamstow, east London.
The youth workers were so struck by her idea that they proposed the young people set up a project and organise their own fundraising activities to pay for the cost of the trip. The young people came up with the name The Rainbow Volunteer Project and have since set about raising enough money to send 10 of them to Brazil for two weeks.
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