LAUREN GREEN | The Manning River Times
30/09/2008 12:00:00 AM

THE Manning will be visited tomorrow by seven people walking from Surfers Paradise to Sutherland to raise money for the School of St Jude in Tanzania.

Kerrie Swampillai is a member of The Walk for St Jude's team who started their journey on Friday and will spend 11 days and 900km walking to Sutherland.

The School of St Jude was started in Tanzania in 2002 by an Australian woman named Gemma Sisia.

It is a sponsorship-supported English Medium School that provides a free education for orphaned and vulnerable children from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds.

When the school started, it only had a handful of children and one teacher at its first campus in Moshono, a village near Arusha in Northern Tanzania.

The school has grown to nearly 1000 students from Prep to Standard 7 and includes two boarding campuses.

The team has already raised just over $10, 000 from fundraising events and hope to raise more along the way.

The Walk for St Jude team is made up of seven people, six of them from Kerrie's family, who will walk in a pair for 1.5 hours and then tag the next pair who will begin walking.

This will happen each day between 6am and 6pm.

The team will also have two support vehicles.

The walkers will arrive in Coopernook tomorrow (Wednesday) and head off the following day from Coopernook towards Bulahdelah.

They will arrive in Sutherland on October 6.

For more information check the website www.schoolofstjude.co.tz.

LAUREN GREEN | The Manning River Times
30/09/2008 12:00:00 AM

THE Manning will be visited tomorrow by seven people walking from Surfers Paradise to Sutherland to raise money for the School of St Jude in Tanzania.

Kerrie Swampillai is a member of The Walk for St Jude's team who started their journey on Friday and will spend 11 days and 900km walking to Sutherland.

The School of St Jude was started in Tanzania in 2002 by an Australian woman named Gemma Sisia.

It is a sponsorship-supported English Medium School that provides a free education for orphaned and vulnerable children from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds.

When the school started, it only had a handful of children and one teacher at its first campus in Moshono, a village near Arusha in Northern Tanzania.

The school has grown to nearly 1000 students from Prep to Standard 7 and includes two boarding campuses.

The team has already raised just over $10, 000 from fundraising events and hope to raise more along the way.

The Walk for St Jude team is made up of seven people, six of them from Kerrie's family, who will walk in a pair for 1.5 hours and then tag the next pair who will begin walking.

This will happen each day between 6am and 6pm.

The team will also have two support vehicles.

The walkers will arrive in Coopernook tomorrow (Wednesday) and head off the following day from Coopernook towards Bulahdelah.

They will arrive in Sutherland on October 6.

For more information check the website www.schoolofstjude.co.tz.