Charity: Msizi Africa
Lucy Caslon set up Msizi Africa with a friend after pledging to help orphans following a trip to Africa in 2006. During this time she travelled across Eastern, Central and Southern Africa and spent time with AIDS orphans in Lesotho. Sharing their lives for a short time, Lucy pledged to help the African children she had grown to love and for others across Africa in a similar position.
London born Lucy previously worked in the charity sector following graduation from Royal Holloway College in 2003. She worked as a special events assistant for Marie Curie Cancer Care, then as a corporate Fundraiser for FSID (The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths). She currently works as a team PA for a real estate company in Central London.
In her spare time she co-founded Msizi Africa to help relieve the hardship of children in Africa where the AIDS pandemic has left many children without parents or extended family.
Currently devoting her evenings and holidays to progressing the charity, Lucy's success to date includes single-handedly raising over £30,000 for the charity which is being used to improve living conditions at an orphanage in Lesotho, and implementing a supplementary food programme for children. Becoming a winner on Vodafone's World of Difference programme will enable Lucy to dedicate her full-time resource to the charity to raise funds and secure long-term support for existing and potential new groups in Africa.