Volunteering in India, Hilda Eaves

Hilda Eaves, from Carmarthen in Wales, is seeking to volunteer in India for 12 months with the Project Trust, a gap-year organisation.

The JWCT decided to support Hilda with a grant of £250 in April 2010 as she was struggling to reach the £4,850 fundraising target due to family circumstances.

Hilda said “thank you very much for your generous donation. My friends are helping me with fundraising. Five of my friends who are boys have agreed to have their legs waxed for charity.”

Project Trust was founded in 1967 as an educational charity on the Hebridean Isle of Coll in North West Scotland. Project Trust sends about 200 volunteers to twenty-five countries annually and is widely respected as one of the most experienced and professional gap year organisations in the UK. Over 5,000 volunteers have spent time abroad with Project Trust.

March 2011

“Just a quick email to let you know all is well at my project in India. The school I am volunteering at is called Sri Chaitanya School. It is located in the small village of Tanguturu . . . There are approximately 800 pupils. I teach nursery to . . . ages 2-8.”