The opportunity to meet your sponsored student and visit their home is one you will never forget.

A sponsor gets a chance for the first time to meet their sponsored student at their new Usa River Campus.

Visting sponors get a chance to meet they teachers they support.

Noela Phillips took the time out to meet up with her sponsored students.

Visiting sponsors will get a chance to go see where their sponsored student lives and meet their families.

Don & Lynley Bowater from New Zealand came to visit us and the students. They are one of our wonderful bus sponsors and its thanks to people like them that our kids are not walking to school.

Paul Weinland from New Jersey, USA was able to stay for a few weeks at our school so as to both meet the teachers and students he is sponsoring as well as to get a real feel of the school.

Finally we have been able to have Mr Ashley Tucker over here! When the school first started Ashley worked with Rocklea and Armidale Central Rotary Clubs to bring donated goods over to the school.

Katherine Loth in Standard 2 brought home Mrs Kavanagh from Sydney one day to meet all her family. One of Mrs Kavanaghs friends sponsors Katherine.

It was a thrill to see and host my old English teacher, Mrs Rosemary Breen and school friend Toni McCosker. Rosemary and her late husband Laurie have been supporting the school since its inception in 2002.

Our darling Sam Dwyer from the USA making a regular visit to her 3 little girls.

Larraine came to The School of St Jude to volunteer for a few weeks and then went away sponsoring Elizabeth and Livingstone!