Students build pipeline in Cambodia

St Patrick's Technical College students and staff will travel to Cambodia in September 2017 to learn new skills and share their knowledge to help build stronger communities.

14 students and three teachers will spend ten days in Cambodia's Siem Reap area helping to improve the lives of local school students.

The 2017 trip will include two projects.

   The major project will see students and staff  undertake a construction project. This will use the skills the technical college students have learnt while in the school's Adelaide, Australia workshops and apply them to help a school in Cambodia. The students will also be asked to teach the local students the construction skills to ensure the project can be maintained for the long-term. This year the students will build on the work they did in 2016, which saw 800m of water pipe laid from the local well to the school, by helping to bring water to the community market.

   The second project will see the school create book packs, buy uniforms and purchase bicycles for students of a remote school. Without these things, students cannot attend the government school. StPatsTech hopes to ease the burden on the local families by buying books, stationary, uniforms and bicycles (so remote students can more easily access school each day).

All the money raised from this page will go directly towards construction material and school needs of Cambodian children. It is part of St Patrick's Technical College's Faith in Action belief.

Passing on and sharing skills to ensure projects are successful for a lifetime, is an important part of this work by StPatsTech.

StPatsTech will purchase the goods in-country to reduce shipping costs and support the local economy. We hope you will consider supporting our trip.

St Patrick's Technical College
Edinburgh North
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