A WOMAN is giving up her Easter holiday to fly to Africa where she will work as a volunteer at an infant home.
Andrea Bradley, 41, from Flawith, near Easingwold, North Yorkshire, has bought her plane ticket to Malawi and is now fundraising for her trip.
She hopes to raise enough cash to buy foot-operated water pumps for the villages where the children in the home come from.
Her fundraising efforts have won the backing of pupils at Queen Ethelburga's College, Thorpe Underwood, near York, where she is a secretary.
She has organised a football shoot-out, non-uniform day and a sponsored walk and has already has raised more than £1,000.
Mrs Bradley said: "My husband thinks I'm barmy, but I really want to do something to help the children, and if I don't do it now, I think I'll regret it for the rest of my life."
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