Cambodia volunteers

Three Year 11 students, Hugh Nikolovski, Joe Furphy and Jack Bentley,  as some of 15 representatives from a local community group of families, are soon to visit Cambodia to volunteer in a sustainable education initiative founded by the Cambodian Kids Foundation (www.cambodiankidsfoundation.org). They will be working for two full weeks in the Soksan Village International School assisting local teachers with their morning and afternoon/evening classes, and attending to other building and development tasks as requested by the school and the village it supports.

Each participant in the group is required to fundraise at least $1200 as a donation to CKF for their ongoing projects, (and pay for airfares, accommodation, food etc on top of this). Over the past 12 months the boys have participated in numerous fundraising activities including wood-fire pizza nights (responsible for making the pizzas and promoting the cause), selling ice-creams, volunteering at FoodBank in Port Melbourne (stacking shelves and packing boxes of food for disadvantaged groups), speaking at and supporting a David Bowie Trivia/Dance night, running a half-marathon, and other individual tasks to raise their money.

Here is a link to one of our fundraising sites

https://give.everydayhero.com/au/Suzanne-10

Mr Colm Reale

(This is quite separate to the school's Cambodian community project that departed last weekend)