<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;">Your donations will go towards supporting the work of GX through International Citizen Service (ICS) and will enable ICS to continue sending youth volunteers, like me, to the developing world to make a lasting difference in disadvantaged and impoverished communities. Every penny counts and all the money I raise will go straight to ICS. So please dig deep! I really need your help to reach my target and play my part in fighting poverty through ICS.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;">Global Xchange is a non profit organisation, its aim is to combat poverty both abroad and in the UK, without your support, it will be impossible to keep the scheme going and enable young people from different backgrounds working together to combat poverty and developmental issues.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;">This is a &nbsp;unique opportunity for young people to learn about poverty around the world and experience it first hand by living with the local community, even though it involves travel and volunteering, this is no gap year tourism, all Global Xchange&rsquo;s volunteers are trying to help from the cause and living at the heart of the community in order to gain an understanding of what poverty means.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;">Your money will go into different projects, one thing that VSO does not do is sending aid or money, instead, VSO send people with the right skill to try combat poverty across the globe and make a real and lasting different through the different projects and scheme that we run. The aim is that we hope all the communities we are helping can cope without VSO or aid the end, they will be able to overcome all the difficulties.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span>Projects ranging from&nbsp;</span>promoting gender equality and helping to launch environmental initiatives in Ethiopia to working to prevent and alleviate youth homelessness and unemployment in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #808080;">For more information please visit:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="http://www.vso.org.uk/">http://www.vso.org.uk/</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="http://www.globalxchange.org.uk/">http://www.globalxchange.org.uk/</a></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>