Emily’s off to India

Emily Dobson Sharp — a year as a volunteer in India

A-LEVELS: Emily Dobson-Sharp is travelling half way around the world later this month to teach children in Hyderabad, India.

She will teach English, maths and science to three to 13-year-olds for a year before returning to the UK to study at university to become a paramedic, possibly at Edge Hill University or at a university in Cornwall.

Emily (18), of Lane Head Road, Lees, studied A-Levels at the Blue Coat School and today gained a B in English literature, C in mathematics and Ds in chemistry and general studies.

She found out about the teaching project — organised by Project Trust — through school and had to raise £5,400 to fund the trip.

Her fund-raising projects included three bag-packing stints at local supermarkets, selling homemade cakes and biscuits and a sponsored Manchester to Blackpool bike ride.

Emily said: “It took me five-and-a-half hours to complete, I am very pale skinned and it was personal torture for me!”

Emily says she will be packing lots of high-factor sun lotion for her trip to India which starts in a fortnight.

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