In one day, students managed to raise more than $800 for a Bermuda charity.

At a recent grub day, where students pay a small stipend to wear clothes other than their uniforms, Bermuda High School (BHS) students raised $822.79 for the Kathmandu Kids Club, which provides support to Himalayan children in serious need.

As part of a pilot schools programme run by Kathmandu Kids Club Schools liaison manager Leo Rouja, who is also a language teacher at BHS, the girls have been writing letters to children in Nepal.

From this cultural exchange, the BHS students decided to donate the money from the grub day to aid the Nepalese children.

Mrs. Rouja said: "We're very grateful that the girls chose to make the Kathmandu Kids Club one of the recipients for the money raised from their Grub Day.

"Not only will the money be well used in Nepal, but also the girls' ongoing contact with the Kathmandu Kids themselves provides a valuable cultural exchange.

The Kathmandu Kids Club is the Nepalese project of the ISIS Foundation, which is supported by ISIS Limited, a Bermuda-based corporate finance and consultancy business and also cares for children in Uganda.

The foundation raises money for projects, such as running ten children's homes for those who escaped the war in the mountains and are now living in Kathmandu, to providing solar power and pit latrines for families living 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas.

Mrs. Rouja added: "For our students to have a heightened awareness of conditions and needs of other countries is something we hope they will continue to have throughout their lives.

"A former BHS student, Rowan Hallett, has just spent several weeks working at one of the ISIS children's homes in Kathmandu and, as part of our schools programme, we hope to have her visit BHS and other schools to talk about her experience."