{"id":4623,"date":"2015-02-17T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:20:35","slug":"cardiff-volunteers-build-for-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/02\/17\/cardiff-volunteers-build-for-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff volunteers aim to raise \u00a312,000 for Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Heledd Pritchard<br \/>\nA group\u00a0of Cardiff volunteers have five months to raise a total of \u00a312,000 to build a farm and a learning centre at an orphanage in Ghana.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HP_Ghana_web2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4625 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HP_Ghana_web2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HP_Ghana_web2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4625 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HP_Ghana_web2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HP_Ghana_web2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>Registered charity Global Love Youth Trust is working with two organisations to make and sell upcycled furniture from unwanted wooden pallets and bike wheels.<br \/>\nOasis Cardiff refugee and asylum seekers centre, in Splott and Howardian Youth Club, in Roath meet twice a week to help reach the target.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe charity\u2019s founder Aaron Harrison said: \u201cWe also run small events, community days and have done a sponsored walk from Cardiff Castle to Castell Coch.<br \/>\nAnd we are setting up a JustGiving page.\u201d A few years ago his colleague raised \u00a3300 for the o<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4624 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HP_Ghana_web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HP_Ghana_web\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4624 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HP_Ghana_web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HP_Ghana_web\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/noscript>rphanage after speaking to the person who had set it up.<br \/>\n\u201cWe went out with the hope this orphanage really existed,\u201d he explained.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have been over three times since the first visit five years ago. The team will help develop the village farm and buy long-term crops to help it become self-sustainable.<br \/>\nThey hope to start a community garden and nursery. As well as taking five computers with them to donate to the children they will also build a learning centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Heledd Pritchard A group\u00a0of Cardiff volunteers have five months to raise a total of \u00a312,000 to build a farm and a learning centre at an orphanage in Ghana. Registered charity Global Love Youth Trust is working with two organisations to make and sell upcycled furniture from unwanted wooden pallets and bike wheels. Oasis Cardiff refugee and asylum seekers centre, in Splott and Howardian Youth Club, in Roath meet twice a week to help reach the target. &nbsp; The charity\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[2489,2490,2491,303,450,81,2492],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-splott","tag-farm","tag-ghana","tag-global-love-youth-trust","tag-oasis","tag-splott","tag-tremorfa","tag-village"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff volunteers aim to raise \u00a312,000 for Ghana - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/02\/17\/cardiff-volunteers-build-for-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff volunteers aim to raise \u00a312,000 for Ghana - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Heledd Pritchard A group\u00a0of Cardiff volunteers have five months to raise a total of \u00a312,000 to build a farm and a learning centre at an orphanage in Ghana. 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