Students raise €55k for African project in two years

A challenge to Irish students to raise €55,000 in cash for a charity in West Africa may seem a near impossible task, but one group of schoolgirls proved that with the right motivation and much teamwork the feat could be achieved.

Two very different international communities teamed up as Cork’s Scoil Mhuire secondary school girls spent two years raising money to fund a school and education programme in Sierra Leone.

The 2010/11 transition years took the term ‘team-work’ to a whole new dimension and raised €40,000 for the African school.