TEENAGERS gave up modern comforts and slummed it in a Worcester car park to raise money for developing countries.
Thirteen youngsters, all members of the St Peter’s Baptist Church youth group, spent the weekend sleeping under handmade wooden huts, eating rice and foregoing electricity for Slum Survivor, a scheme run by Christian organisation Soul Action.
The group built their mini-shanty town in the church car park, off St Peter’s Drive, Worcester.
Youth group leader Paul Chester said the experience taught everyone a lesson.
He said: “It hit them quite hard just how much we take for granted. We let them have sleeping bags, but there were no pillows and they just ate two small meals of rice and lentils a day.”
Each participant was sponsored by friends and family and money raised will be donated to Soul Action for poor communities around the world.
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