KIMBERLEY College student, 13-year-old Charli Martin has taken her school's fundraising efforts for Rwanda to heart and raised $700 holding her own high tea.
The teen told her grandmother, Clarice Barker, she wanted to make a difference for Rwandan families who had endured years of trauma, starvation and illness since civil war in 1994.
This month, she spent a weekend baking cakes and goodies to serve to family and friends to raise $700 for poor Rwandan families as part of Kimberley College's "Road to Rwanda" charity drive.
"Imagine a world where everyone was starving and sick and the next minute your mother, father, brother or sister is gone and you fear you could be next," the teen said.
"It breaks my heart to know that while we were happily watching TV, eating plenty of food, some poor child was out there alone trying to live on this earth - trying to find that one piece of bread or that one sip of water that might sustain them for a few days."
Thankfully, since 1994, charity organisation World Vision has been in Rwanda helping to build, provide food and restore village life.
The college will send 20 students to Rwanda to work with World Vision and to meet families.
