After months of fundraising and preparation, a group of Narrabri High School students and teachers began their journey to Cambodia on Sunday morning for their volunteering mission.
The group caught the train from Narrabri to Sydney and flew out of the international airport at midday yesterday.
Working with Tabitha Foundation Australia, the group of 19 will build eight houses for homeless Cambodians.
The foundation aims to bring international volunteer building teams to Cambodia to finance and build homes for the country’s neediest families such as widows, single mothers, landmine victims and
orphans.
Each house costs $1500 and community elders and Tabitha staff choose the recipient families.
The visit overseas will also take in a trip to a Cambodian school, where the Narrabri students will donate craft supplies, skipping ropes, cricket sets, tennis balls and 150 packets of toothbrushes and toothpaste.
They will fly home to Australia on December 17.