Fundraising continues to be an important initiative for an upcoming mission trip to Mexico for Christian Ethics students.
The mission trip will be held during the upcoming Easter break. Already, the Christian Ethics students have hosted a few fundraisers for the mission trip.
There are 14 students going on the trip to Cuernavaca, Mexico. These students were chosen from the Weyburn Comp, Estevan Comp and Radville Regional High School.
The trip will be held from March 25 to April 3, and will see the students travel to a small village outside of the city to work with local residents in developing kitchen and washroom facilities.
The Christian Ethics group will also visit a school to volunteer and assist. There will be cultural component as the student will visit a monastery, a museum, an artisan market and swim in some springs.
“This mission activity gives students the best opportunity to demonstrate the skills, behaviours and attitudes studied in the Christian Ethics courses,” said instructor Lynn Colquhoun.
“This type of journey promotes lifelong stewardship and a chance to serve the people in Cuernavaca, to let the light of Christ that is within to shine brightly.”
The students will be doing some fundraising to help with the expenses of the trip as well as community service efforts.
The chaperones will participate in all lead-up activities to help finance their participation.
The cost will include a $1,000 deposit from each family, and the cost will be about $2,000 per student, and $12,000 for the chaperones and coordinators.
The staff and chaperones will include the instructors Mary Ellen Barreth and Colquhoun; Holy Family staff member Agnes Plourde-Doran; Southeast Cornerstone staff member Breanne Swarbrick; trip facilitator Joan Rink from the Archdiocese of Regina, and volunteer parent chaperone Roberta DeRosier.
