New Canaan's Lizzy Burke is the co-president of the local Free the Children chapter and, in June, she hopes to travel to Nicaragua to participate in various sustainability-focused activities.
According to the club's outline, the hope to accomplish several things during the trip:
- Create and ensure a sustainable future for children in rural areas, some who are involved in child labour in coffee and sugar cane fields, by providing them with access to and removing obstacles to a quality education.
- Focus on school-building in communities which do not have appropriate school room capacity or dilapidated school buildings.
- Help alleviate poverty and contribute to rural community development by putting into service all five pillars of Adopt a Village.
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