PARISHIONERS of St Mary's RC Church, Chipping, are trying to raise £700 to provide two sets of solar panels and pumps for wells in the Brazilian communities of Sitio and Varzea Grande.
A Water Aid display is being exhibited in the foyer of the church.
Mr Joe Howson of Lee House, Thornley, is organising the fund raising project.
Mr Howson, who teaches religious education at Cardinal Newman College, Preston, will visit Brazil in June with a fellow lecturer and 12 of his students.
They will spend three weeks there helping with the construction of the wells.
Joe spent five years in Brazil, working as a volunteer for International Aid. While there he met his wife Rosealba and they now have two sons who attend St Mary's RC Primary School.
While teaching at St Martin's College in Lancaster he led pupils on trips to Peru, Argentina and Bolivia.
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