Forget the Gold Coast: school leavers focus on charity in Cambodia

AS THEIR classmates flock to the coast for a schoolies week of sunshine and mayhem, Claudia Snell and her friends will celebrate the end of school by helping the less fortunate.

With the ink barely dry on their Higher School Certificate exam papers, 19 graduates from Mosman High School will fly to Cambodia to help build houses for impoverished families in a village outside Phnom Penh.

They are part of a growing group of HSC graduates eschewing the traditional Gold Coast knees-up in favour of alternative options.   More Read