A GROUP of young volunteers from Albury are expecting a “complete culture shock” when they travel to help hundreds of poverty-stricken people in Cambodia.
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Members from Albury, South Wagga and Hoppers Crossing Apex groups will head overseas for two weeks where they will help rebuild two derelict schools and an ophthalmic care hospital.
Albury Apex vice-president Brent Valente said one of the projects is a floating school at Battambang Province which has no walls and educates about 300 students.
“It’s located in a monsoonal area and it is completely decrepit,” Mr Valente said.
“The school has sharp edges and risk of injury is so high, even a small abrasion can be a death sentence for these kids.”
The other school is in the dumps of Phnom Penh.
The Battambang Ophthalmic Care hospital is scraping by using wooden tables for complex procedures.
The five members of the Albury branch will pay their own way for the trip, but are undertaking intense fundraising with all of the money going straight to the projects in Cambodia.
They are hoping to raise $65,000 before they leave on September 12 to split between the three projects.
A trivia night will be held in the CWA building on Kiewa Street on July 10 at 7.30pm costing $10 a head.
Businesses and the community are also being encouraged to donate money or educational supplies.
Donations can be made at chuffed.org/project/apex-cambodia-15 or by contacting branch president Joel Valente on 0409 156 716.
