The Incas of Peru have always fascinated Sarah Stephenson -- and now she is going to be working in that civilisation's sacred valley.

Sarah Stephenson

Ms Stephenson of Wallingford Road, Cholsey, a liaison officer at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, will be in Peru for four months.

She will be working with Peru's Cultural Institute to restore agricultural terraces in the traditional Inca way.

She will also help teach English in the valley's schools.

She goes in June 2004. To donate cash towards her trip e-mail sarah_dreams@hotmail.com.