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Oak Bay High students Jane Lindroos, left, and Ella van Neutegem, both in Grade 11, find themselves behind bars with Nutty, the school’s mascot. The pair, along with other students, are organizing a Jail Bail this Saturday at The Bay Centre to raise money for a humanitarian trip to Mexico in 2014.
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A group of Oak Bay High school students are rounding up the usual suspects and throwing them in the clink. The school’s Jail Bail event, taking place at Victoria’s Bay Centre May 4, will help students raise money for a humanitarian trip to Mexico in 2014, where they will build two homes for impoverished families. The trip happens every two years and
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other people live, it’s mind boggling.” takes two years of fundraising. The two are the only returning Jane Lindroos and Ella van Neutegem students for the 2014 trip and, as such, went on last year’s trip, to a small are spearheading the poverty-stricken village “Obviously, we fundraising events and called Vicente Guerrero, teaching the younger where they helped know how lucky we students as they go. construct two homes are, but once you see The students are hoping for families, spent time with the local school and how other people live, to raise just under $20,000; $12,000 for construction bonded with the residents it’s mind boggling.” supplies and about $6,000 of the village. They say - Jane Lindroos to furnish the new homes the experience changed and stock them with their lives. starter groceries. Any “Just the appreciation extra money will be donated to the local and the love we got from everyone school, by way of supplies. there because they knew what we were doing,” Lindroos said. “Realizing how lucky we are. Obviously, we know how PLEASE SEE: lucky we are, but once you see how ‘Prisoners’on display, Page A9
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