Club projects

Alternative Schoolies Program, Cambodia

In 2010, the Rotary Club of Frankston Long Island selected students from Frankston High School, Woodleigh and Mount Erin College, to spend 15 days volunteering and sightseeing on the inaugural “schoolies programme”, set up as an alternative to the usual trip to the Gold Coast or Lorne. Team members, together with the students, raised over $7,400 to be divided between 3 projects in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

$2,400.00 built a kitchen, a bike shelter, supplied new lunch bowls, bought paint and brushes and materials to create garden beds at the entrance to the impoverished Krasang Roleung Primary School. This school runs on $25  a day and has 240 students.

At the Life and Hope Association Children’s Development Village and Primary School, $2,400.00 built a drain to prevent flooding and the students also helped with the building of a new kitchen. $2,400 was also donated to the Green Gecko Project, which houses, feeds and educates 60 children who have been victims of abuse.

Students took English classes at both the Primary Schools and the Junior High School; they painted water fountains; built brick walls and rock retaining walls; chopped bamboo sticks with machetes; served meals to the children; and played a great game of soccer in searing heat with the Green Gecko children.

The club is currently visiting local schools to promote this year’s trip, which will visit Phnom Penh as well as Siem Reap in November 2011.

Click here to view a short video o f  the 2010 trip to Cambodia. Links to the Animoto web site.

For more information, please contact Janet McCahon on 0418 541 993 or Judy Rebecca on 0415 109 859