THREE Huddersfield University students are setting out on a unique charity mission to provide recycled books for poverty-hit African schools.

Kirsty Cook, 21, Sarah Broadmeade, 21, and Kirsty MacLean, 20, met MPs at the Houses of Parliament to discuss the project.

They aim to raise £10,000 to fund a six week working trip to Tanzania next summer in aid of Read International’s plans to take 275,000 used academic textbooks to more than 200 African schools.

The students will spend three weeks distributing the books around the area and another three weeks helping to run lessons in local secondary schools.

Interior Design student Kirsty MacLean said: “As students in Britain it can be too easy to take for granted what we have. In Tanzania there are hundreds of schools which don’t even have basic provisions like textbooks.”

“The idea of this project is to contact schools and colleges in Britain who often have to pay to have obsolete textbooks removed, and arrange to pick them up ourselves.”

“We all feel incredibly lucky to be able to help provide so many children the ability to learn.”

Read is currently searching for storage space for books, and is appealing for local help. Read can be contacted on 07504483391.