Pots of cash needed for China (From Barry And District News)

Pots of cash needed for China

A VOLUNTEER is raising money to go on a trip to help educate underprivileged people in China.

The 29-year-old from Nells Point, Barry, needs to raise 2,150 for the two-week project in August.

Christopher Anstee will be going on the trip with charity Cross-Cultural Solutions, which work with nurses, carers and orphans all over the world.

Team manager Christopher said: "I looked into volunteering with a work colleague who is also going to Xi'an in China.

"We decided that China was the most needy place and that they would benefit most from the voluntary help. In China, there are a lot of abandoned children who have been left to fend for themselves.

"Families are only allowed to have one child, and this means the children are often left at the side of the road.

"But there was a time when they might have been killed - particularly if they were girls."

He will be raising money to fund his trip through various events such as a dress-down day at his place of work.

The region where Christopher will be going is Xi'an, the ancient capital of China.

It is situated in the central part of the country, between the Weihe River in the north and the Qinling Mountains in the south.

The population of the province is four and half million - just a fraction of the total population of China which is 1,298,847,624.

Xi'an is famous for the hundreds of pot soldiers found by peasants digging wells in 1974.

The excavation led to the discovery of the Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses, which were distributed over three large underground platforms and formed part of the Emperor's burial objects.