A 16-YEAR-old Newport student is trying to raise £5,000 to fund her volunteering trip to Kenya where she will work in an orphanage.

Jade Leung, of Arundel Road, will travel to Kenya in September to work in a orphanage for six months.

Miss Leung is making the trip by herself with the gap year company Changing Worlds.

She wants to raise a minimum of £5,000 to fund her trip for the whole six months.

She would also like to raise funds for the orphanage and her family hope to send out a large amount of bedding and clothes for her to give out to the children while she is working at the orphanage.

The Tesco store in Spytty is helping Miss Leung with her fundraising by allowing her to hold a cake sale there and do some bag packing for customers.

Miss Leung has the support of Maindee fire station who are helping to organise a fundraising car wash and also the Oddfellows and Forresters pubs in Baneswell.

She is also hoping to complete a sponsored walk and is already writing to other local companies to see if they can help.

The former Coleg Gwent student said she has always thought about going to Kenya to help people after going there as a child.

Miss Leung, who works as a waitress at the Celtic Manor, hopes to go back to college to study childcare when she returns from her trip.

For more information see www.jadeinkenya.co.uk