FOR Linda and Roger Bullen, their trip to Namibia next month will be very much a bitter-sweet experience.

The couple will be travelling to the village of Otjimanangombe, in the country's remote eastern Omaheke province, to open a much-needed clinic for local people.

Their involvement in the health of a nation thousands of miles from their West Mersea home came as the result of the loss of their daughter, Catherine, a medical student who died from gastroenteritis on safari in Namibia in 2002.

Keen to do something in her memory, they started the Catherine Bullen Memorial Fund.

l For more details about the Catherine Bullen Memorial Fund or to make a donation, log on to: namibia-aid.org.uk

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