[Australia's] Redlands students building hope for Cambodia

23 September 2012 

The Mosman Daily

By Simone Roberts

Redlands students built this house to raise awareness for its Raise a Home for Cambodia program.

CREMORNE is not the first place you would expect to find a house for a Cambodian family of six, but that's where one is now standing.

The scaled-down house was built over two days by Year 11 students from Redlands, to raise awareness for its Raise a Home for Cambodia program.The program will see 50 students travel to Cambodia in the first two weeks of their Christmas holidays.

While there, the students will work with three local charities to build homes and provide help for more than 2500 Cambodian children who live on the street.

Participating students are currently doing everything from babysitting to car washing to raise the $750 they each are required to personally fundraise toward the charities.

"Community contribution and global citizenship are a focus of a Redlands education, and this is a way our students learn these values first-hand," Redlands principal Peter Lennox said. "This mini-house construction project, albeit temporary, will raise awareness."