Photo: Ray Ryan

Tuam's Shauna volunteers to help children in East Africa

A MEDICAL student from Tuam travels to Uganda in East Africa in a few weeks' time to volunteer in a health care centre.

Shauna Harte was the only one from her class selected to travel with the group of 17 students as part of the UCD Volunteer Overseas initiative. It will be a life-changing experience for the 21-year-old given that the doctor-patient ratio in Uganda is estimated at 1 to 24,000.

She will be volunteering with Nurture Africa, an Irish charity that works to provide healthcare and education to the most vulnerable children within communities in Uganda.
Donations can be made on www.altruism.ie via the Shauna Harte fundraising page.

Read more in this week's Tuam Herald