A STUDENT nurse is preparing for a trip of a lifetime to South East Asia to experience working on a children’s ward in a third world country.

Kaley Stokes, 19, of Town End, is a student at Huddersfield University studying child nursing. She has just completed her first year and as part of her course, she has been given the opportunity to pursue a healthcare elective for her second year.

Through Work the World, an organisation who offer health care students tailored electives, Kaley is now preparing to travel to Cambodia in July 2019. The scheme gives students the opportunity to boost their career prospects through opportunities abroad.

Kaley will be travelling to Phnom Penh in Cambodia on July 21, 2019 for two weeks where she will work alongside paediatric nurses who treat a diverse range of conditions including malaria, influenza, diarrhoea, tuberculosis and HIV.

Kaley said: “It will be a different experience to working in a hospital in the UK. I really want to broaden my horizons and understanding of how nurses and healthcare differs abroad.”

The trip is entirely self funded but to help with the cost she has set up a go fund me page, in the hopes of raising money towards the cost of her trip.

She said: “I do not expect to raise the full amount but anything I do raise will be a massive help.”

In addition to the fundraising page, Kaley will also raise money through cake sales and raffles.

She said: “When I graduate in 2020 I want to work as a children’s nurse in the UK. I feel this experience will really help shape the nurse I become.”

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