Teaching in India for gap year student

18-year-old Rebecca White hopes to spend her gap year in either Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh in the south of the country.

The Stratton Upper School student needs to raise £5,100 to help support herself while abroad and so far she has reached the £800 mark.

Next Friday (February 17) she will be holding a coffee morning at the Potton and District Social Club to collect more funds.

Rebecca, of Sutton Mill Road in Potton, said: “The Project Trust came into our school and I was really interested in what they were saying.

“I did some research and went to a four day selection course on the Isle of Coll in Scotland. I was selected to go to India.”

She will be teaching English to primary school children, mostly through signs, gestures and pictures.

The coffee morning will be from 9.30am to 12.30pm and everyone is welcome. There will also be a raffle, children’s crafts and small competitions.

Anyone wishing to help Rebecca can send a cheque made out to Project Trust to 25 Sutton Mill Road, Potton, SG19 2QB, with contact details so she can say thanks.

To read the full story see the Biggleswade Chronicle of Friday, February 10.