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IB
students Liz White, aged 17, from Solihull and Martin Le Breuilly,
aged 17, from Moseley, with Mahoney's owner John Mahoney (right)
and Mahoney's employees Steven O'Gorman and Bernie O'Gorman
outside their Solihull centre |
Students
from The Sixth Form College, Solihull joined forces with local
builders' merchants M&J Mahoney and Sons Ltd in a bid to raise
funds and resources for a planned humanitarian trip to Romania
this summer.
The students are all studying the International Baccalaureate Diploma
at the college, in conjunction with Tudor Grange School.
This community work is part of their Creativity, Action & Service
(CAS) unit, which demands students undertake 150 hours of voluntary
work over the two years of their course.
Students have already been hard at work on their CAS unit, volunteering
at local primary and secondary schools, as well as at the Marie Curie
centre in Solihull.
However, the big project is the trip to Romania from July 11-20,
where they will be repainting an orphanage accommodation block opened
by television presenter Annika Rice in 1990.
M&J Mahoney and Sons Ltd, based in Old Lode Lane, Solihull, have
supplied paintbrushes, rollers and varnish to be shipped out to Romania
for the students to use.
Jeanette Pickard, IB teacher and CAS co-ordinator from Tudor Grange
School, said: "We are so grateful to Mahoney's. Not only have
they been enormously generous in donating the tools we need to complete
this project, they have also provided so much invaluable advice."
IB co-ordinator and head of the Business & Social Sciences Faculty
at the college Mike Padbury added: "This is an exciting project
and the students are all looking forward to going to Romania. The
trip is now a step closer thanks to the help from Mahoney's, but
there's still a lot of work to do and staff and students will be
putting in every effort in preparation for what promises to be a
very rewarding project."
Students have already begun fund raising for the trip, including
staging cake sales, participating in sponsored runs and staging a
'Battle of the Bands' event. The fund raising will continue and anyone
wishing to support their efforts is asked to contact Bev Bishop on
0121 704 2581.
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