The game is on in Church Stretton to raise trip funds
The game is on to raise money for a trip to South East Asia for a group of enterprising youngsters.
Year 10 pupils from Church Stretton School have already raised £70 with a lunch-time dodgeball competition and £60 making pancakes – and next they will be bag packing at Church Stretton's Co-operative store at Lion's Meadow, from 10am to 4pm this Saturday. They will be travelling to Borneo this summer, not for a holiday, but to carry out work on the island.
Karen Lewis, house achievement co-ordinator at Church Stretton School, and trip leader, said: "We're going to a small village and are going to work in the community, doing whatever we find that needs to be done when we get there, whether it's building houses or working with children. As far as we're aware we'll be working on a new building for the school. Then we'll be trekking through the jungle with local tribespeople that will show us the way they live."
Last October, 13 pupils from the school journeyed to Romania where they built a house for people living in appalling conditions and helped out in a local school.
