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Luke's Story |
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Luke Cachia, 15, was one of the boys who
travelled to Novinki with the Llanrumney
Youth Inclusion Project.
Here are Luke's thoughts about the
trip.... |
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Luke's report on trip
to Belarus |
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One
day in June 2001 I had a
phone call from the manager
of crime concern Linda
Williams. She asked me if I
would like to go to Belarus
with the youth club. If I
was interested to go to the
youth club to find out more.
When I was at the youth club
Linda and the other boys
were they're speaking to
another lady called val.
They explained that we were
going to make the porter
cabin outside a music room
for the children of novinki
orphanage. |
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| I agreed to go
even though I didn't no what I was going
to experience. As the weeks went by I
just carried on as normal getting into
trouble with the police and hanging
around outside shops. Finally the day we
were leaving was here onto the bus and
of we went on the longest drive I had
ever been. From Cardiff to England and
England to France then through Belgium,
Holland, Germany and Poland were we had
stayed in a motel. That night I was a
bit nervous because we were so near and
I didn't know what was to come. The next
day we were there and I had the shock of
my life. How do young children live like
this I thought to my self everyone was
upset and some people were crying? After
that day I didn't think that I would
cry. As the days went by there was a
little girl called Angela and she used
to come with me every were I got so
attached that I didn't want to go home.
As the last day came and we had given
the orphanage its own music room. It was
time to say farewell to our new friends
and I couldn't stop myself from crying.
That day I realised that I didn't need
to get into trouble no more but what I
did need to do was help these
unfortunate children live there lives
the happiest way they could and visit as
often as I could. |
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| Luke Cachia 14/11/01 |
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