Blackrock College in big car raffle

BLACKROCK College has taken delivery of a brand new Peugeot 208 from Gowan Motors Merrion as the prize in a raffle which aims to raise funds to build a new school in Kenya.

In attendance at the launch of the Machakos Car Raffle was rugby pundit and Peugeot Brand Ambassador, George Hook, alongside pupils and staff from Blackrock College and Gowan Motors Merrion representatives.

The past pupils and current students at Blackrock College were asked by the Kenyan Foundation of Spiritan priests in 2011 to help build a much needed new secondary school in Kenya.

The new Holy Ghost School Machakos will be located two hours southeast of Nairobi, in a region of significant deprivation and under-development. The area currently has no second-level education at all and for hundreds of children educational opportunities cease once they complete their primary years.

The new school will open up a new world of education, knowledge and personal growth for these children.

Blackrock College has organised extensive range of events since 2011 which have generated over

?¬160,000 towards the Machakos project to date.

The latest charity drive, the Machakos Car Raffle, which was launched in February, aims to raise a further

?¬40,000.