Kambrya College students Chantelle, Alex, Matthew and Madilyn put up their feet after walking from the school to Beaconsfield to raise money for a water supply project in East Timor. 24692
By Kelly Yates
MORE than 400 students walked from their Berwick school to Beaconsfield in an effort to raise awareness and funds for a water supply project in East Timor.
Kambrya College’s Walk for Water event saw the students set off for the Manna Gum Reserve in Beaconsfield on Friday, 7 November.
Each student donated a gold coin towards the water supply project with their friendship partner school in the village of Letefoho in the Ermera District of East Timor.
Several schools within the City of Casey have been supporting schools in Ermera with educational supplies and funds since 2002, as well as exchanging letters, banners and photograph albums with the East Timorese students.
The Friends of Ermera, who allied with the City of Casey, have been instrumental in instigating the project to establish a running water supply.
Kambrya College teachers Ruth Scott and Ben Forbes travelled to Letefoho in 2006 and saw first-hand the difficulties the people faced at school and in their daily lives without running water.
Ms Scott said a lack of sanitation, running-water supply, short-life expectancy and low literacy rates remained serious issues in the country.
