It's every parent's worst nightmare - when Alison and Basil Eastwood waved their daughter off on a gap year adventure, the thought she would never return home was inconceivable. But the parents from Bicester, Oxfordshire, were bereft after Cecily, 19, was killed while she was volunteering in Zambia. The teenager had been enjoying teaching at a school in Kitwe where she ran a homework club for orphans. She intended to stay there for a year before taking up a place at Cambridge University. Basil and Alison today, the couple have made a huge difference to the lives of thousands of children in Africa after setting up a charity in memory of their late daughter
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Cecily Eastwood was 19 when she died in Zambia
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Killed in car crash after pick-up truck struck a pothole
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She'd been volunteering at orphanage before going to university
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Devastated parents Alison and Basil wanted to visit where she worked
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Couple from Oxford were moved by children they met in Africa
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Vowed to set up a charity to help them and honour daughter's memory
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Founded Cecily's Fund which gives orphaned children an education
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Now joined forces with Comic Relief ahead of March's Red Nose Day
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