Cecily Eastwood was a sparkly nineteen-year-old when she embarked on her gap year between school and university. She left her home in Oxfordshire to spend a year teaching in Zambia. When she arrived in the Zambian town of Kitwe, she set about finding an organisation with which to volunteer. She found an organisation called CINDI, which helps children who have been orphaned by AIDS.

Cecily died, only months later, in a Zambian road accident. Her parents, Basil and Alison Eastwood set up Cecily’s Fund in her memory - our smiley logo is the one she used to sign her letters home. Cecily’s Fund continues to support the education of orphaned and vulnerable children in the Kitwe area of Zambia today.

We regard ourselves as a bridge between our supporters and the orphaned and vulnerable children whom we are helping in Zambia. We attach great importance to maintaining and developing both ends of the bridge.