The Charity Trip
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Booked on a flight to Somalia, she hopes to Learn. Grow. Help. Experience.
Felicity has a passion for helping those in need and jumps at the opportunity when she sees a flyer to volunteer at a refugee camp in Somalia. What she doesn't know is that this trip will change her life...forever.
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Forced on a flight to Somalia, he hopes to, well... be anywhere but there.
Hayden is the son of the CEO of Korner CO., a multi-billion corporation. It's when his father forces Hayden to abandon his typical carefree, party boy satire and learn the satisfaction of ambition in looking over the refugee camp.
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Two people. Both opposites of each other. Will they persevere and gain more out of this 'Charity Trip'?
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