Harborough Volunteer To Visit Oxfam Projects In Kenya

A Market Harborough charity shop volunteer is heading to Kenya to see first-hand the work done there by Oxfam.

Judith Rout. who also runs the town’s Friends of Oxfam group, is self-funding the 12-day trip and will head to the African country this weekend to visit projects promoting women’s rights.

The projects include working with women to set up a farm co-operative; providing emergency safe-houses and hostels for women suffering domestic abuse; protection for female domestic workers; support for victims of female genital mutilation; and the promotion of women’s political engagement.

Judith, a former science teacher at Robert Smyth Academy, will accompany a number of Oxfam’s major cash donors on the trip, two of which are her friends.

She spoke to HFM:

Judith Rout

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