Hayley Westenra chats to I Like Music

ILM: You're an Ambassador for UNICEF and have a Bikes for Ghana' provided 6,000 bikes to help young Ghanaian girls attend school. It must be great to make such a difference to people's lives?

HAYLEY: Yeah totally, I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing, that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment. But with this work it's saving people's lives. When I went to Ghana and saw all these poor children who had nothing and had been through so much, I couldn't have just left and forgotten about it. I was just really driven and motivated to start up a project and getting girls to school is really important, so these bicycles will help them. We've got over our target of 6000 bicycles, which is really fantastic and we're going to continue with that project as well as starting up a new one which relates back to the lack of clean water. So I'm hoping to go out to Ghana again this year or next year.
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