[Australia's] Camden Rugby Club come to the rescue for Cambodian children in need

8 January 2013

By EVIN PRIEST

MEMBERS of Camden Rugby Club will use teamwork to build a classroom for underprivileged children in Cambodia later this month.

The club adopted Ride Aid as their official charity, which was co-founded by Werombi resident Bruce Fitch to support Cambodian residents in need.

Fitch will join clubmates Tim Windle, Brady Millar, Jake Fitch, Evan D'Souza, Andrew Black, Andrew Bent and Angus Elliott to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, for Ride Aid's annual charity excursion.

Ride Aid will build a classroom, in conjunction with local residents, on land it bought recently for children who live in slums without access to education, toilets and running water.

Ride Aid will provide buses to take about 400 children out of the slums each day and bring them to the school they built for education, food and activities.

Fitch said Ride Aid hoped to bring education to all areas of Cambodia.

"I started Ride Aid with my friend Frank Surgener to provide Cambodian people with the means to make their own change," he said.

"If you give them rice it's gone the next day and money seems to get lost in the administration of some charities, so we decided education was the key to improve the quality of life."