One Day Only - Molly´s Roadhouse In Coin

Kat Smith has purpose-built a £100k land rover for a trip to South Africa leaving on February 6th, primarily to raise funds for an orphanage called the Little Angels in Uganda

Kat Smith a mechanic, has been working on land rovers for 32 years, and is from New Ash Green, however also has a property in Spain.

The 55-year-old has built a land rover with a shower inside – the first of its kind –to take through the continent and will stop off to volunteer at an orphanage on the way. Kat and her friend Nicole Taylor intend to be away for six to nine months depening on the visa situation.

Kat decided whilst planning a trip to South Africa that she would go out of her way to start looking at orphanages and she found an unsponsored orphanage called the Little Angels in Uganda.

They don´t have cooking facilities, and cook on an open fire on the floor, and have seven or eight children per bunk bed, which are just slats of wood without mattresses. The children don´t have any pens or paper, and the school is just rubble with a blackboard. Kat coming from a background of fostering children and working with young offenders, this was something on a scale she had never seen before. So she made it her point to find out how bad it really was, and to put it out there and she thought she would love to volunteer with them, which she has planned to do.

She is holding a charity event at Molly’s Roadhouse in Coin on February 4th and has set up a Gofundme to raise money for the orphanage.

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