Drew Shepley, aged 7, is travelling to Cambodia in July this year to join a house-building team with other Cambodian kids and their adoptive parents. The team will travel to Kompong Som to build a total of eight houses in a village just outside Sihanoukville.

This will be Drew's second building trip to his home country with Mum, Belinda, and Dad, Fred. Belinda has been selling Tabitha cottage industry silk products, in association with Living Silk, since October 2004, and has managed to take orders and sell over $20,000 worth of this beautiful silkware. As well as creating a lot of interest in Tabitha Cambodia's work, profits from the sales have assisted in fund raising to meet the cost of building materials for the July trip.

Drew's classmates have also helped with fund raising. After a talk about Tabitha's work by Belinda, the school captains from each class at East Carnarvon Primary School (total of 340 students) got together to discuss what they could do to help. They decided to build a house frame from plywood in the style of the Tabitha logo, which they then painted and displayed in the school canteen at lunch time. For a 50 cent donation, students got to bang a nail into the symbolic house. On Friday, 10th June, they proudly handed to Drew and his Mum, a cheque for the total funds raised

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