Charity worker wins funding
Sarah Button (on left) with the Tanzanian community where she was helping build a rainwater harvesting system, seen behind.
A YOUNG graduate is being given the chance to work for her favourite charity after winning funding from telephone giant Vodaphone.
The Vodafone Foundation is to pay Sarah Button of Harmston to work for a local charity of her choice through its World of Difference programme, in its third year.
Sarah is among 500 people from across the UK who will work for a charity of their choice full-time for two months or part-time for four months, supported by the Vodafone Foundation. Over 5,000 people applied.
Sarah has chosen to spend her placement, starting in March, with Engineers without Borders UK, an international development organisation that removes barriers to development through engineering. She said: “I have travelled with the charity abroad in the past but this placement is going to be based in a UK office doing fundraising - mainly corporate sponsors. I have volunteerd with Engineering Without Borders for four years since I got involved in my second year of university at Imperial College London.”
She worked on a project in Tanzania building rainwater harvesting systems, which has spurred her to want to do more in international development.
The 23-year-old has just completed her masters degree in chemical engineering and first wanted to take some time out to dedicate herself to the charity. Sarah said: “It has been a difficult year for fundraising for charities, so I could see a gap in their resources and I am looking forward to being able to contribute to a charity which has given me a lot of pleasure in the past.”
Sarah said she had to apply on line, pass a telephone interview, submit two references and the charity had to make a case too.
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