STUDENT Lindsey Maton is setting her sights on an exciting gap year working with underprivileged children in India.

The 19-year-old has been selected to work in Tamil Nadu with the gap year company Project Trust but must first raise £4,600 in sponsorship for the trip.

Lindsey is currently taking a two-year training course in child care at Weymouth College and hopes to become a teaching assistant. She has appealed to local people and businesses for support and is hoping the plight of deprived Indian children in the hit film Slumdog Millionaire will inspire them to support her cause.

She said: “My work will be to work with the poorest children and to teach English as a foreign language.

“I’m hoping that through the popularity of Slumdog Millionaire people in this country will be touched by the poverty and deprivation portrayed in the film and will want to do something positive to help young Indian children.”

Lindsey said she realised the current economic climate means people will not part with their money lightly.

She is offering to come and talk to any individuals or organisations interested in sponsoring her so they can find out more about what she hopes to achieve.

“People are more careful about what causes they support and want to know that their money is reaching those they want to help,” she said.

“What I can offer is that by sponsoring me, businesses and organisations will be directly helping to educate some of the poorest children in India.

To get in touch with Lindsey email lindsey.maton@mypostoffice.co.uk