Seneca Valley High School senior Chloe Roy, 17, holds a baby on her most recent trip this past summer to volunteer at the United Hearts Children Center, located in Bawjiase, a town of about 12,000 people in the central region of Ghana.

Since a young age, Chloe Roy has aspired to give back on a greater scale.

She never anticipated she would embark on her first overseas trip at the age of 15.

Chloe has traveled to Bawjiase, Ghana, a country in western Africa situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, for the past three summers and during that time raised over $30,000 for an orphanage and health clinic.

With the funds she gathered this past year, the clinic remodeled its children's immunization ward.

“These kids, at the end of the day, they really deserve the world,” said Chloe, 17, a Seneca Valley High School senior. “That's what my mission is about, raising the money and having this fundraiser to give these kids the opportunities they deserve.”

This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Thursday's Butler Eagle.