My amazing summer in Peru

"Hola, ITV local. I am Katie. I’m 19 and studying at Leeds Metropolitan University in the hope of becoming a primary school teacher. In the summer of 2008 I had the opportunity to go to Peru to volunteer for 10 weeks fully funded by the government with the organisation Platform2. This 10 week experience was the most intense and amazing summer I’ve had to date."

"When I first got accepted onto the programme I thought I’d missed something in the small print, but before I knew it I was on a 15 hour flight to Lima, Peru."

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