Cambridge Evening News (UK)
STUDENTS helped street families in Cambodia as part of a five-week trek through the country and neighbouring Vietnam in the summer break.
Newmarket College students Sarah Cowles, 15, Lettie Dorey, 16, Luke Read, 15, and Katy Spurr, 16, were accompanied by teacher and former town mayor Mick Jefferys.
The students organised their own transport and accommodation for the whole trip on a shoestring budget, which included trekking through jungles in 40 deg C with 100 per cent humidity, encountering typhoons and crawling through a bat-filled tunnel before climbing on the mountains near Dalat.
Following their trek they returned to Ho Chi Minh City, taking buses into rural Cambodia where they helped out at the Street Families centre which provides shelter for young children and single mothers who have been abused and raped.
The team built a wall for the centre, paying for the materials out of their own budget, to keep out intruders. They also played with the children and helped teach them some English.
The trip included a visit to the largest religious building in the world, Ankor Wat, and the "Killing Fields" near Phnom Penh.
Mr Jefferys said: "All four members of the team showed tremendous leadership skills and were resolute in their determination to complete the expedition."
Newmarket College students Sarah Cowles, 15, Lettie Dorey, 16, Luke Read, 15, and Katy Spurr, 16, were accompanied by teacher and former town mayor Mick Jefferys.
The students organised their own transport and accommodation for the whole trip on a shoestring budget, which included trekking through jungles in 40 deg C with 100 per cent humidity, encountering typhoons and crawling through a bat-filled tunnel before climbing on the mountains near Dalat.
Following their trek they returned to Ho Chi Minh City, taking buses into rural Cambodia where they helped out at the Street Families centre which provides shelter for young children and single mothers who have been abused and raped.
The team built a wall for the centre, paying for the materials out of their own budget, to keep out intruders. They also played with the children and helped teach them some English.
The trip included a visit to the largest religious building in the world, Ankor Wat, and the "Killing Fields" near Phnom Penh.
Mr Jefferys said: "All four members of the team showed tremendous leadership skills and were resolute in their determination to complete the expedition."
2 comments:
Thank you for your help!!!!!We remember you for ever!!!Thank you!!
Pleae talk about unjustice to the world for us, do not use us as guony pic!
Poor Cambodian Victime
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