Learners raise funds to
help Haiti
WATCHING the plight of By JOHN EDDEN
young children losing
their homes and fighting
immediately that they wanted to do
something to help raise money to go
for survival in Haiti
towards the relief cause. It wasn’t
proved too much for a
until they saw the devastating
group of sympathetic
effects of the quake unveiled on
College learners who
news broadcasts that they made
the decision to hold their
decided to hold their own
fundraiser sooner rather than later.
fundraising event in After much debate and
Haiti’s honour - all in
speculation over what they should
their own lunch break!
do, Florence Saka suggested a cake
sale and everyone agreed. Florence
Southwark College’s Student
explained: “Everything was a bit
Ambassadors came together to
last minute. We knew as soon as
stage a cake sale, baking the treats
news of the earthquake broke that
themselves and raising much-needed
we wanted to do something for
funds for the country left
them as a College and as we saw
devastated by the disaster.
the sad scenes unravel from
After news broke of the
the quake we knew we should do
catastrophic earthquake in the
Caribbean country, the College’s
HELP: Student Ambassadors (pictured l-r, front to back) Tasnim Osman, Ricardo Dias, Muna
Student Ambassadors decided
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Mohamoud, Florence Saka Arhin, Gentiana Haxhija and Awet Atoy sell cakes to raise money
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