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"After Sumbawa I took a flight to Melbourne Australia with $20 to my name in order to make some more money to get back on the road.

"After working in Melbourne and along the east Coast I flew back to Asia and ended up back in Sumbawa working with the Harapan Project there on clothing aid and essential needs donations to villages in need.

"I flew to Cambodia after that and volunteered with COLT inner city orphanage in Phnom Penh.

"There I educated young people from the ages of 10 to 16 daily as well as holding an English speaking for university students class after hours."

The former Carrickfergus Grammar School pupil then spent some more time in Australia before flying back home in July to surprise his mum Heather for her birthday.

"It was in the first few days of staying back at my parents I listened to the latest This American Life podcast," he said.

"Ira Glass and the TAL team had done a special feature on Greece and after listening I couldn't get the now seemingly unreported story out of my head.

"I stayed up all night and met dad in the kitchen early the next morning with the news that I was now planning to fly to Greece as soon as possible to lend a helping hand in."

Connor made contact with the group A Drop in the Ocean and the rest is history.

He has spent time working in Sounio camp, a few hours south of Athens, and is now based in Northern Greece working within two camps of 2,000 people living on the cold, wet and windy Macedonian border.

"I have never been so fearful of a project, only for the lack of cohesive information on what's really a happening in the field," he said.

"I had many friends feed me cliche lines like "growth comes when you step out of your comfort zone", true or not I can unequivocally say I am as far from mine as I have ever been, even now.

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"Day to day in camp I have been working with a small team of passionate volunteers from countries including Ireland, England, Ukraine, USA, Germany, Spain and Greece. The amount of volunteers changes a few times a few times a week but the amount of work seems to always be growing.

"I work mainly sorting, packing and distributing clothing to around 400 mostly Syrian refugees in a camp based in an abandoned children's summer scheme. It is dusty and demanding physical work with an emotionally difficult aspect that I have never experience quite so much. I have cried everyday."

As well as the work organised by Drop In The Ocean, Connor - whose family live in Carrick - organised a hairstyling for ladies class and plans to work with a few barbers working on the camp on a skill sharing and assisting basis.

To support Connor with his fundraising and to find out more, click here .