Some Walkerton students have learned first hand that it really is better to give than receive.
Bayshore Broadcasting News Reporter Robyn Garvey tells us the students just returned from an overseas mission trip.
After spending two weeks working in a Dominican Republic orphanage — life will never be the same for 17 students from Sacred Heart High School.
Teacher Peter King says the trip was as much a spiritual journey as it was a physical one for the students.
King and the students spent their time at an orphanage just north of San Pedro Di Macoris on the south coast of the Dominican Republic.
The students took on various projects — including painting the orphanage, sorting through donated clothing, working in the kitchen and most importantly, spending quality time with the orphans.
Students call the trip life changing.
Many of the students plan to return on their own to the Dominican Republic, while others have personally sponsored some of the children from the orphanage.
It cost each student 25 hundred dollars to take the trip — and one thousand dollars of that total went directly to the orphanage.
In total the students and staff members raised 20 thousand dollars for the orphans.
King hopes to offer the trip again next year.