Inside the pop-up African hut at the Market Place in Bolton

The eye-opening display at the Market Place is aimed at showing visitors the harsh realities of life in a poverty stricken village.

Charity World Vision has set up the huts as part of an innovative fundraising drive.
The pop-up installation encourages people to sign up to sponsor children around the globe.

Each sponsorship can help up to 30 people, and donors can also pay for “one-off, must-have gifts” such as goats or business training for 70 villagers.

John Alder, World Vision’s regional fundraising site manager, said: “By sponsoring you will being helping to bring long term change to the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable children.

“In four years Isata and her family have gone from extreme poverty to being able to stand on their own feet.

“Our work is not just about food and water or sanitation and health care it is also giving children a voice in areas they are not currently heard because they are our future.” 

Visitors to the huts can learn about the story of Isata, a young girl from Sierra Leone, whose life was turned around by the work of the development charity.

Growing up in a poverty stricken village, Isata faced a life of hardship living in cramped in a mud hut with her mother, father, two brothers and sister.

Every day Isata would be forced to pick weeds in her family’s fields, perform chores around her home, go without school and carry filthy water, packed with germs, for miles. 
By the time she was eight Isata and her siblings has suffered from several bouts of malaria and contracted appendicitis so severe her appendix would have fatally burst if World Vision had not intervened.

World Vision works in almost 40 countries around the world helping to transform communities’ future prospects.