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Wendy: Can you tell me about ways in which you get involved with the ... your community?
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Roxana: Yeah, sure. There's a few ways, and I guess the most important or most recent example is an activity that I recently organised with a couple of my friends and, because I come from a Third World country I have a perspective upon issues, things that are happening in the Third World that I would like people to be aware of.
3. One thing that is particularly close to my heart because I'm, I'm now a mother, is that of homelessness in the Third World, particularly homeless children and ill-treated children.
4. So, I organised an event at the beginning of February it was, when we cooked four different varieties of soups and linked this to ... well a lot of children in the Third World would eat for days on end, you know, just a bowl of soup. And we had a number of people that I knew who are artists and they donated their time, it was a storyteller. And we made enough money to actually send back to an organisation that looks after homeless children in Latin America, which is called Casa Alianza.
5. We made quite a lot of money, I think it was £1,000 and I was really pleased about that, because it was a good effort. It was done with people that I knew, all my neighbours contributed, my friends contributed and all the people in the audience were my friends and, and their friends, so it was fantastic opportunity. It makes one feel fulfilled and happy about life, it restores some faith in the human race if you wish.