The project enabled the students to gain a firsthand understanding of how difficult it is to carry a heavy bucket of water over a long distance, like many children across the world are forced to do on a daily basis.

The fundraising event was organised by the year 12 students who are part of the Marian College Student Leadership Team.

At the beginning of this year, the team decided it wanted to focus on a social justice project which would be ongoing and therefore provide sustainable aid to enable the recipients to eventually be self sufficient.

The team's other criteria was that it needed to be a program with which the students at Marian could relate and one where very little costs were taken up with administration.

After much research and debate, the leadership team decided on CO-ID, which was founded by Fred Hyde in 1991.

This organisation is staffed entirely by volunteers and 98 per cent of donations go directly to the project, which is the building and resourcing of schools in Bangladesh.

They believe that by helping to build the education system and encouraging the acceptance of basic primary education, they are creating a brighter future using Bangladesh's own greatest resource - the children.

For $8,000, a school for 300 children can be built and for a further $8,000, the school can be maintained in terms of teachers and resources.

The challenge then was to raise the initial $8,000.

Students were sponsored to carry buckets out to Green Hill Lake and return with full buckets of water which were distributed at various locations.

Each year level organised a variety of food and drink stalls and the day concluded with 'Marian's Got Talent' in the afternoon.

The students exceeded their $8,000 total, collecting an impressive $11,500.

Teacher Anne Bunting thanked everyone who donated and congratulated the students on their initiative.

"This was the result of a great effort by the year 12s and opens up the challenge to next year's year 12 group to carry the legacy on," she said.