Australian Country

CAMP EQUALITY

It’s received wisdom that benefactors receive as much as they give. For the past seven years students from Canberra Grammar School (CGS) have had the opportunity to put that notion to the test when they give up the first week of their summer holidays to help children with additional needs, as hosts at Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camp, or Sony Camp.

Approximately 20 students from CGS and Canberra Girls’ Grammar School move into the CGS boarding house, and act as full-time carers

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