A caring student is raising £5,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) through Spanish tutor classes.
Danni Morales, 22, began the weekly sessions in September and they are one of many ways he is fundraising for the charity.
He currently teaches five students – four home schoolers aged six and seven in West Bridgford Library and a year 11 GCSE student online.
The sessions last for one hour and charge £10.
Danni donates all proceeds directly to the charity.
The sociology student was inspired by his charitable family and wanted to make his late grandfather proud.
He said: “My aunt was raising money for a charity in Africa back in the 90s.
“My grandfather passed recently and he did lots of charity work.
“I was always really inspired by him, he did a lot of work with the British Heart Foundation and I wanted to make him proud.”
TCT is a cancer care and support charity with 28 care treatment centres across the country.
He recently hit 25 per cent of his total goal.
But for the kind-hearted language tutor, helping others learn Spanish is payment enough.
He said: “It makes me feel rewarding; you’re teaching people Spanish who are really interested.
“No one I know speaks Spanish apart from one of my friends.
“It’s a beautiful thing that I can give these people an opportunity to learn another language.”
And it is not just Spanish tutor classes where the Cuban has raised money.
In November he and five other students camped on South Sherwood Street, Nottingham, and urged members of the public to throw wet sponges at them.
He said: “There were three of us swapping in the chair.
“I definitely didn’t have the worst of it.
“Some people’s friends came and one of my team’s friends paid £30 to throw the whole bucket over him.
“We raised over £350 in just a few hours.”
Danni oversees a team of eight other students, all with the same £5,000 target.
One of the team’s grandmothers raised £800 at her local church.
Another has set up a non-uniform day at their old primary school, with all the proceeds going to their charity.
Long Eaton Rotary Group has agreed to join in on the fundraising through bucket collections at Tesco.
