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After raising a staggering €40,000 for the street children of Calcutta and the Cork based charity HOPE that works with them, eight lucky students travelled to the city to see how the money was being spent. This life changing journey was led by Mr. Preston who has for many years co-ordinated the massive effort at the college to raise funds for this project. This is the third year they have travelled to the slums of the great Indian city to observe and lend support to the program we support, but the first time that Mr. Preston has been able to join them. His abiding memory is of the overcrowded conditions and the huge numbers of families living on the streets. Ultadanga slum is the size of a soccer pitch and home to 5,000 families.
In Calcutta a city the size of Dublin but with a population of 15 million nearly 40% don’t have a proper home. The college has raised more than €100.000 in the last three years. Our thanks go to all the staff and students including the current transition year class who worked so hard to raise the money but did not get the chance to travel. We are very proud of their efforts.