Paddle-happy Rachel aims to kayak 50km for asylum seekers
Thursday, March 11, 2021
By Elizabeth Lee
RACHEL Kenny, a second-year student at DCU, has been paddling like crazy for the past two weeks.
For the month of March and facing all sorts of weather conditions, she’s vowed to kayak 50 kilometres to raise funds for a charity that’s special to her.
Rachel’s the chairperson of a society in DCU called Volunteer Overseas. This led her to being involved with an Irish organisation, the Scoop Foundation, and she’s now immersed herself into raising funds for two of their projects.
The money she’s raising will go towards Scoop’s educational projects for young people living in direct provision in Ireland and for refugees living in Iraq. Rachel also harbours ambitions to travel to Iraq one day, when the pandemic restrictions are lifted.