Cafe owners fundraise to open venue in Zanzibar

What do Wraysbury and Zanzibar have in common?

Not a lot at the moment, but cafe owners Gary and Nicky Hall are hoping to change that.

The couple run a cafe in Berkshire and are fundraising to open a new cafe in the Tanzanian group of islands that will train young people to cook and manage a business with the profits going to charity.

Mr Hall said he was inspired by a trip to the African country where he "was able to share my love of cooking with the locals".

Mr Hall explained that a year ago they hosted a charity evening at The Kitchen in Wraysbury raising money for Kenya and Zanzibar.

He said: "I expressed an interest in doing a little bit more for that charity and that's when I met Gasica, the founder of the Learning 4 Life Foundation."

Mr Hall told Kirsten O'Brien on BBC Radio Berkshire that: "Gascia came to the cafe, he was on a fundraising tour and we had a really nice chat.

"We talked first about me going out to Zanzibar and inspiring young people to cook.

"The more we talked, the more we thought 'why don't we open a cafe in Zanzibar":[]}