Garstang Circle have an interesting evening!

Last year Miss Hannah Spencer, 23 years, a parishioner of St. Mary & St. Michael's Parish, Garstang, undertook three months voluntary work in Nepal with the Voluntary Overseas Program to help the people there whose lives were devastated by the earthquake in Kathmandu. 

Prior to going to Nepal, Hannah was the recipient of a grant from the Catenian Bursary Fund to help her with her work dealing with  the struggling people in Nepal.

Recently, as promised, Hannah gave a very interesting talk about her experiences to Garstang Catenians, their ladies and visitors following the Circle's monthly meeting at the Garstang Country Hotel. 

Hannah told her captivated audience she stayed with a family in Kathmandu and carried out a number of projects as part of the Voluntary Overseas Program, which will no doubt benefit the local community for years to come, with probably the most fulfilling project being educating the children, including teaching them to prepare their C.V's.

Hannah showed a video she had made followed by a short talk and then invited questions from her very attentive audience, including two Past Grand Presidents and a Bursary Fund Committee Member.

   

Although Hannah found her voluntary work a very fulfilling experience, it was by no means a relaxing sojourn

in the sun, for she had to endure primitive sanitation throughout and a number of health problems.

Hannah organised a number of fund raising projects before she went to Nepal and with the £600 Catenian Bursary award it helped her to smash her target and raise £1,466 for the Voluntary Overseas Program.

Well done Hannah.

 Photograph ( l to r ) Past Grand Presidents Tony Godden and Mike O'Malley,  Hannah Spencer, Steve Masterman Garstang President, Terence Donnelly, Bursary Fund Committee Member.

(L to R)  Bro. John Towers, Garstang Circle member

 and Hannah's  grandfather.

Hannah Spencer, Bro. Steve Masterman, Garstang Circle President.