STUDENTS across Oxford will join together to support those less fortunate than themselves.

Care Across the Continents will see students put together an evening of music at St Michael and All Angels' Church in Summertown.

Syrian children in a refugee camp in Lebanon and orphans in Zambia will be the benefactors of the evening, which will feature classical and jazz music.

Embrace the Middle East and Cecily’s Fund - an NGO based in Witney - have joined forces to set up the concert.

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Alison Eastwood, the organiser of the evening, says it has a special resonance for her family.

She said: “We were in Syria in 1997 when we heard the tragic news of our daughter Cecily’s death in a road accident in Zambia.

“She had been in her gap year and had been working with a local NGO in the slums of Zambia’s second city helping to look after the thousands of orphans created by the AIDS pandemic.

“The family decided that enabling destitute children to go to school would be the best possible way to commemorate her.

“Zambia is still suffering the effects of the AIDS pandemic and there is still desperate need for Cecily’s Fund’s support if Zambia’s orphaned and vulnerable children are to have a future.”

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Cecily’s Fund currently enables over 3,000 orphans to go to school in Zambia.

The concert will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 7pm. Tickets are £12 for adults and £6 for children.

Tickets can be purchased at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-across-the-continents-tickets-77313708383