Clodagh Maye has two weeks of her summer holidays already mapped out. She’ll spend them doing volunteer work in Tanzania. Clodagh, from Castlelyons, who has just finished Transition Year at Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy, will travel with her dad James to work at a sports camp in the parish of Esso, in the city of Arusha in northern Tanzania.

Father and daughter are going out to Fr. Michael O’Sullivan, a Pallottine priest who has lived in Esso for 22 years. He lives in the Pallotti parish house where long term volunteers stay. They are making the trip through the ‘Sport for Life’ charity which provides relief and assistance and works to empower people in need in less developed areas of the world through sports and vocational training. They’ll work at a facility which Playing for Life funded and built. The centre has basketball courts and football pitches for use by the local community. There’s also a resource centre and a clinic where Clodagh and her dad will be based.

COFFEE MORNING

The pair will help Fr. Michael with the running of the parish and assist him in the running of a health related sports camp for children from the local primary schools in Esso. While there, they’ll present equipment and furniture to schools bought with money fundraised. To that end they are holding a coffee morning on Thursday, July 4th in the Resource Centre in Fermoy and invite everyone to go along on the day and support them.

Those who can’t make the coffee morning can make a donation directly to Clodagh at Corrin House, Fermoy or ring 086 3926583.

While Clodagh’s dad James made a trip previously to Malawi, it’s Clodagh’s first time to travel abroad to do such work. She’s greatly excited at the prospect. They’ll be in Tanzania from July 13th to 27th.