Goals: To enable young care-leavers to have an overseas gap-year experience.
Funding: Young people raised 20,000, Richard Branson donated 9,000 worth of Virgin Atlantic flights and 12,000 of grants and donations came from organisations including the Big Lottery Fund, the Jack Petchey Foundation and The Prince's Trust.
Young care-leavers in Lewisham will be setting off to South Africa this month in a project inspired by Chancellor Gordon Brown.
The South-East London to South Africa project has been arranged by Lewisham Council's leaving-care service as a way of widening young care-leavers' experience of life.
Lee McDaid, mentoring project manager at Lewisham Council's leaving-care team, says: "Last year, Brown said that all disadvantaged young people should be able to take part in gap-year-style initiatives. This project will give them the opportunity to challenge themselves, explore their goals and give something back."
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