St. Peter’s High School in Gloucester is representative of the city of Gloucester in that it has a significant Filipino population. Over the past two years, students in Year 11 have raised over £5000 for people in the Philippines still rebuilding their lives after Typhoon Haiyan in Nov. 2013.
With the assistance of its associated charity, the FWA-UK (registered charity 1147454), the Philippines 24 Hour Challenge events have seen students teach lessons to their peers, play Filipino sports for 24 hours straight and actively fund-raise within the local community. The School’s efforts were mentioned in the Houses of Parliament in November 2013.
In June 2016, the students took on their biggest challenge; to raise £5000 for some of the different projects that the FWA-UK undertakes – such as the Scholarship Programme that support the education of deprived children, the Support a School Programme which aims to fund some school projects that has direct benefit to the education of deprived children. Other projects include the CRIBS Foundation that provides temporary shelter to abandoned, neglected, and dependent children as well as treatment, healing and recovery program for sexually abused girls.
The school’s fundraising events culminated in a Philippines 24 Hour Challenge at St. Peter’s H S on Friday 24 June 2016 when students channelled the year’s Olympic spirit by attempting to find out how far they ran a torch flame in 24 hours.
