Leaders Travel to India on School Building Projects

 

 

On Tuesday 15th January 2008, two Venture Leaders, Noel O’Connor (45th Mount Argus) & Stephen Carey (94th Walkinstown), will travel to Kolkata, India, to take part in a School building project.  The two will travel in a party of forty people, mainly made up of the Transition Year Students of John Scottus School in Donnybrook to work on the projects.

Noel & Stephen arrive in Kolkata, Loretto Day School on Wed 16th & from there travel to work on a School Building Project in Diamond Harbour on the Ganges first...

After a week or so travel to a Tribal area, Bancura about 280Km outside Kolkata to start a second project of a small school...

From here, back to Kolkata and then on to Puri, for the last two days or so wind down...

The two travel back to Ireland on Friday 8th February

“We're going to India to help as part of the Transition Year Project that has been run in John Scottus School for the last 5 years..., we have being trying to put a ‘scout spin’ on the working of the group.  The last five years have seen ten major building schemes finished. We help to get the work started and Sr. Cyril, using our funds and with her village development staff and local labour, completes the work.”

At present, it is estimated, that 63 million children do not have the opportunity of attending school throughout rural India.