Fame Academy and Pop Idol vocal coach to the stars Carrie Grant recently visiting a new community development project in India with World Vision UK. Ms. Grant will be visiting the Vaishali project in the North Eastern state of Bihar, where Carrie will see how the childrens charity are working to help improve the health of the locals community who live in this impoverished area.
Whilst in India, Carrie will be talking to a local women’s self help group, who have created the opportunity to start small businesses in the area to provide for their children. Carrie will also be watching a local street theatre group who highlight the important health message that need to be conveyed to the locals. Many children in the area are facing severe health problems, with malnutrition causing at least one third of child deaths in the area. Ms. Grant will also be meeting with the staff and patients at the only community health centre in the area, which has to serve an unbelievable 78,000 people!
Carrie said –
I’m very excited to be visiting Vaishali. It’s a fairly new project for World Vision, so it’ll be interesting to see how things are taking off. I know World Vision grounds its work in grassroots cooperation and I’m a great believer in community – it’ll be good to meet the people and learn how the local experts are moving forward day to day.
Carrie, who is best known for her work on talent shows such as Fame Academy and Pop Idol, will be presenting a new World Vision event called ‘Girls Night Out’. These events, which start in the Autumn, are a new initiative to entertain whilst sharing stories about World Vision’s partnerships with women who live in developing countries.
The first Girls Night Out will take place at St Mary’s Church in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, on Friday 10th September 2010, with further dates around the country to follow.
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