From David Hutchings, Exeter 382594, June 30, 2008

STUDENTS at a Devon school will be discovering what life is like in a refugee camp this Friday (July 4).

Year 8 students from Queen Elizabeth Community College in Crediton will be working with the charity Save the Children and Exeter Refugee Support Group as part of the school's Global Citizenship programme.

The Save the Children workers are bringing with them an emergency tent of the type they are currently using in China to house victims of the earthquake.

Around 40,000 Chinese children are currently displaced due to the earthquake and the subsequent flooding.

The students will learn about life in a refugee camp and why people may arrive there.

This will include building a shelter, considering diet and hygiene, family tracing, which Save the Children try to do when unaccompanied children arrive in camps, and education and play facilities for children in a camp.

NOTE TO NEWS EDS: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the day.

For more information contact Clair McColl, Support Team Leader at QECC on 01363 778347.

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