A SOUTHCREST student is to spend a year working for the world's oldest nature conservation organisation in Vietnam.

Christopher Stroud, 19, of Greenfields, is a volunteer on the Youth for Development programme, run through international development charity Voluntary Service Overseas.

He will be working in Hanoi as a programme officer for Fauna and Flora International from mid-August.

He is one of 60 UK university and college students aged 19-25 going to developing countries.

Christopher will be taking pictures and news stories relating to life in Redditch and the UK with him.

He can be contacted by writing to 6 Greenfields, Southcrest, Redditch B98 7DY or e-mail chrisstroud955@hotmail.com