Hello everyone, I am fundraising to go to India in February 2020, to volunteer at the Hope Foundation School in Bhuj, India, which my school in Bristol helps to pay for 40 of their students to go to school. The city was hit by a huge earthquake which killed a fifth of the population and left the city in extreme poverty.

The Indian charity ‘HOPE Foundation’ established a centre in Bhuj following the earthquake, creating a mini-hospital and Hope Foundation English-medium school. The school is located in the Ashapura Nagar slum.The school has been a rallying point for the residents of Bhuj as their children chart out a new future for themselves and their families. Although Bhuj is no longer the same since the earthquake, the establishment of the school has lifted the spirit of the people. The construction of the school has given confidence to the people, who had lost a number of their children in the disaster, crushed under the walls of their school classrooms.