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F R O M T HE HE A D M A S T ER Mr Adam Heath
Headmaster, Adam Heath, addressing the Grammar community at Founders’ Day 2019.
The request came via email from Old Grammarian Charlie Rose (1999) and was a little out of the blue. He and his brother Hamish (2005) had been trekking in Nepal. On the walking route between Lukla and Everest Base Camp, they had visited a small village, Buksa, that had been devastated by the April 2015 earthquakes. Whilst some of the village had been rebuilt, the local school remained in ruins. Charlie was contacting Ballarat Grammar to see if we might provide funding and partner with the Himalayan Trust to rebuild the school. The Junior School, using $10,000 of its Bina Day funds, committed to build four stone classrooms for the village.
