A woman who plans to leave her job to help those less fortunate than herself will attempt to replicate African poverty during a week-long experiment.

Rachel Bainbridge, 25, from Rocklands, but who now lives in London, aims to live on £1 per day for a week in a bid to raise money for a volunteer trip abroad.

She will walk the seven miles from her home in East Ham to her job in Bethnal Green, cut out all socialising, significantly reduce her water consumption and eat on a severely restricted budget for seven days this August.

The support worker said she would then give up her job in October to spend three months volunteering in Tanzania under a part-government-funded scheme.

'I'm saying I'll do it for a week because it's going to be hard,' she said. 'I don't think you could do it for any longer. There's quite a lot of information about how to live on £1 a day and that's what I'll have to look into. I also live with my auntie and she recycles a lot so she will be able to help.

'I want to reuse water the way they do in Africa so I'll use shower water to flush the toilet and things like that. I wanted to make it quite similar to how it will be while I'm away.'

The scheme, an International Citizen Service project, with Raleigh International which runs sustainability projects, aims to eradicate poverty across the world and offers 18 to 25-year-olds the opportunity to get involved in international development.

Each volunteer is asked to raise £800 which goes towards the running costs of the program.

Miss Bainbridge, who has been offered a place on a speech therapy course in London in September, 2014, said she would not know which volunteer project she was allocated to help with until her arrival in Tanzania, but that all of the communities the scheme was associated with had specifically requested help.

'I've been in London for 18 months and I'm ready to move on,' she added. 'I like to travel but I've not done volunteering before.'

To sponsor Miss Bainbridge visit www.justgiving.com/Rachel-Bainbridge3