My name is Lucia McMahon, I am a student in St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth and I am volunteering to go abroad to Maletswai, South Africa during this summer, to build a school in the local parish. It is a very rural part of South Africa, meaning that they don’t have a proper school building rather it is that every age group of each class is taught in the same hall, which is also used for meetings and conferences. Therefore, it is highly important that we are able to go over there and build a functional building where students are able to receive a proper education. This means that they can look forward to a better future and live a more comfortable life compared to that of their parents, for example, because at the end of the day, “education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom”.