Project Little Dream volunteers help to build a school in Prey Run village, Cambodia, for 150 children.

Thnouh Village School, the fourth school built by Project Little Dream volunteers. Photo: Project Little Dream

A classcroom at Thnouh Village School. Photo: Project Little Dream

Thnouh Village School was the first built entirely by Project Little Dream. Photo: Project Little Dream

The first English lesson, in 2010, at the newly completed Khna Rong School . Photo: Project Little Dream

Work in progress on building the frame of the second storey at Thnouh Village School. Photo: Project Little Dream

A building at Prey Run Village School, which Project Little Dream built in 2009. Photo: Project Little Dream

The first night class at Prey Run School, 2009. Photo: Project Little Dream

A woven bamboo screen for Thon Mun Community Centre in Cambodia. Photo: Project Little Dream

An art installation at Khna Rong School comprising small planks of wood with messages and pictures collected in Hong Kong for the Cambodian children. Photo: Project Little Dream

The newly completed Khna Rong Village School in 2010. Photo: Project Little Dream

Volunteers build a wall of Khna Rong Village School. Photo: Project Little Dream

Volunteers plane a timber plank for use in building the school at Khna Rong. Photo: Project Little Dream

Children look on as volunteers saw timber for use in building the school at Khna Rong. Photo: Project Little Dream

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How a group of Hong Kong students built four schools in rural Cambodia

Many Hong Kong students help in poverty alleviation schemes around Asia, but few set up their own charity and keep it going, as James Mak and his friends at Project Little Dream have done

Ben Westcott

Published: 1:00pm, 5 May, 2016

Updated: 3:43pm, 5 May, 2016