“I’LL never forget it. Watching children mixing sand into this dirty water and drinking it, just so they’d have something in their stomach. Even using bits of burst balloons as chewing gum.”
Jody is one of the volunteers who works at the Grassmarket Project, a social enterprise attached to Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh.
She’s talking about a recent trip six people from the project took into a remote area of Zambia to help the locals build a school for girls there.