Successful trip to Calcutta a message of HOPE

AT the start of this school year, Anne Copplestone, nurse at the South Infirmary and volunteer at the HOPE Foundation, came in to my school to talk to my transition year about the opportunity to go out to Calcutta and visit the HOPE projects over there to see the work they were doing.

She told us from the start that it was going to be tough to raise the money to get over there (€3,000), and assured us that it wasn’t some kind of holiday.

She inspired seven people in my year, including myself, and 43 others from different schools around Cork.