Tracey Dennison with a child and their teacher at Living World of Faith World Changers in The Gambia
A Hull hospital worker travelled to West Africa to deliver food and gifts to families living in poverty.
Tracey Dennison, a senior perioperative support worker in theatres and recovery at Hull Royal Infirmary, has just returned from The Gambia where she delivered food, stationary and gifts.
According to the NHS Humber Health Partnership, Dennison donated enough sacks of rice to feed more than 200 children and a entire village for more than a month.
Dennison said, thanks to contributions from her colleagues, she was able to take extra luggage filled with donations.
Dennison has travelled to The Gambia for the past six years in memory of her parents, who spent 25 years helping schoolchildren at Living Word of Faith World Changers, which was established as a school in 2011.
However, with the cost of living crisis, she said she had been struggling to afford to keep buying gifts for the children.
Ahead of her seventh trip, she appealed to co-workers for support.
“The children were just so excited when they saw I’d brought them colouring books, pens and pencils and other small gifts,” she said.
“Thanks to the generosity of staff at the hospital who donated money, I was able to pay to take extra luggage to carry lots of donations.
“The response was just fantastic and I’m so grateful to everyone who helped. They’ve helped make a lot of people so much less fortunate than us very happy.”