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NO TOT too troublesome – that’s the attitude of a group of young east Clare people who are offering a ba- bysitting service to raise money for a CrT-NeLAVmOlUDUCNDOTomoeCe)um
The 25 members of The Fishbowl Youth Club in Scariff plan to travel to New Orleans under the auspices of the international Habitat agency, which organises building projects in the Third World and in places where natural disasters have left people homeless.
The group needs to raise more than €50,000 between them to take part in the trip and have already got a number of fund-raisers under their caps.
“What we are offering is a service where people can ring for a babysit- ter and we’ll organise one for them from a pool of volunteers.
“The money we’re paid will go into the kitty for the trip,” said Fia- cra Kenny, one of the fund-raising ea cele toy
The babysitters are from Mount- shannon, Scariff, Tulla and Bodyke
and will travel even further afield within reason, so long as they have the means to get there.
It’s just one of a number of novel fundraisers the youngsters have un- dertaken.
“In February, we made and sold St Brigid’s crosses and on St Patrick’s Day, we busked in Galway, playing music and face painting. It was pretty cold, but we made some money,” said jwrlone
The Fishbowl Club has more than 30 members and the group hoping to travel are aged between 16 and 20, as
well as adult club leaders.
It will take a lot of babysitting, bag- packing and painted faces to raise Salen eel OF
Fiacra and his fellow club members are hoping that individual donors or businesses will come on board to help them raise the cash before July.
Anyone who needs a break from the kids can hire the Fishbowl serv- ices by contacting Fiacra on 087 7486370.
Anyone who would like to help out with sponsorship can also contact Fiacra on that number.