Janet spreads a little sunshine for campaign

10th January 2008

A WELL-KNOWN fund-raiser has added her name to a list of campaign supporters.

Sunshine Radio launched Taking Over The World earlier this year and is asking members of the public to buy one of its T-shirts and then have their picture taken wearing it somewhere interesting across the globe.

Janet Brown, who lives in Cornwallis Avenue, Worle, often flies out to stay with her friend Edith Mukamazimpaka in Honika in the south of Rwanda.

While there she and other volunteers help to work towards providing better living conditions for orphans in the country.
On her most recent trip Janet and her team started work on establishing a training centre there.

Janet first travelled to Rwanda when she was 21. She met Edith and went on to volunteer as a teacher for two years at a boarding school before becoming the head at a girls’ domestic science school.

Since the 1994 genocide, Janet and husband David, have been sending money to help Edith and the orphans she takes in. 
Recently, Janet took the opportunity to have her picture taken and lend her support to Sunshine Radio. As a parting gift she left her T-shirt with the villagers.

If anyone else is interested in helping with the campaign they should send any photographs to: Sunshine Radio campaign, Weston & Somerset Mercury, 32 Waterloo Street, Weston, BS23 1LW or e-mail them to newsdesk@thewestonmercury.co.uk

T-shirts are available from Clobber at 17 Meadow Street, Weston, or can be ordered online through the Sunshine Hospital Radio website.