HIGH school students who opted to help a cyclone hit Fijian community as an alternative to schoolies frivolity returned home to Albury on Tuesday tired, but satisfied with their achievements.
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The students from Trinity Anglican College, Anthony Rees, Ella Inskip and Giorgia Chapman, and Albury High School, Angus MacKinnon, Jack Kadaoui, Will Peterson, Alex Wards, Portia Togher, Matthew Porter and Riley Butler have spent the last 10 days helping out the remote Village of Vatusekiyasawa.
They raised $6000 before leaving Australia to pay partly for paint and other equipment to paint a community hall and a recently rebuilt kindergarten which was destroyed in Cyclone Wilson earlier this year.
The trip was an initiative of Albury Hume Rotary Club with youth co-ordinator Rod Bramich said the touring party were a credit to themselves and the city.
"The village is far removed from the tourist view of Fiji with no hot water, limited toilets and electricity, throw in the wet season and they were definitely taken out of their comfort zone,” he said.