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Lauren Mcneil is living her childhood dream in Zambia
A 22-year-old Winslow woman is following her childhood dream to help build a wildlife hospital in Africa.
Lauren Macneil left Winslow in March, to fly to Zambia to work for ANGWA Conservation, a non-profit organisation that runs an African wildlife rescue centre near Lusaka. It is in the process of building the country’s first wildlife hospital and rehabilitation centre, which it hopes will become a flagship for wildlife care in Southern Africa.
Lauren, who attended the Royal Latin School, said: I suppose I’ve always been a weird child in the sense I was determined to live in Africa since the age of nine. I don’t know why, I only ever saw it on the TV, but for some reason it felt like that was going to be my home, and my old classmates will attest to my unnatural obsession with David Attenborough!