Blackpool & the Fylde Circle were very pleased to be
asked to host the awarding of a national Bursary Fund photographic competition after
their recent meeting. Medical student
Cindy Rodrigues Cleto of Ilford, Essex, at present on a placement at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
as part of a five-year course at Liverpool University to become a
cardiac thoracic surgeon, won the competition.
It was open to those who had received bursary grants last year. Cindy had
submitted a photograph taken whist doing voluntary work in Tanzania. Tony Charnock,
Secretary of the Bursary Fund, said that Cindy’s photograph was selected as the
winner because it conveys how much voluntary service means to those it intends to
help. The smiling faces of the children surrounding Cindy were from the
orphanage next door to the dispensary to which she had been assigned.
The winning photograph |
L to r: Bro. Tony Charnock, Bro. President Lawrence Turner, Cindy Cleto, Bro. Provincial President Robert Thompson, Bro. Terence Donnelly (Vice-chair of the Bursary Fund) |
Before setting out for Tanzania Cindy raised money through
her home parish in Liverpool. She completed an arduous walk up Mount Kilimanjaro
that took five days to reach the summit raising sufficient funds to buy medical
equipment, a new playground for the school and the supply of a nurse and two
doctors to provide some free health care.
Whilst in Tanzania Cindy was a volunteer hospital worker and
also assisted with some outreach activities with Arise School focused on
Christian primary education. Since returning
home she has raised £800 to support the vital surgery needed for an operation to
correct a congenital problem of a two-year old infant whose mother had been told
by the doctors that there was nothing that they could do. The operation is planned for 18 January.
Tony Charnock was keen to emphasise that the Bursary Fund is
there for young Catholics to help others. Each year the Bursary Fund makes
awards of over £100,000 to young Catholics aged between 16 and 24 who volunteer
to work on projects overseas and as helpers on diocesan pilgrimages and HCPT.
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