A group of 23 Maniototo Area School students, along with 12 adults, are planning to visit Vietnam in April next year and have been hard at work raising money.
Parent Becky Bruhns said the fundraising committee hoped to cover about half of the $250,000 cost and was on target to meet that goal.
Mrs Bruhns is part of the team organising a fundraising quiz night for Saturday.
Teams of eight could enter for $20 and compete for prizes, as well as glory, and there would be a special prize for the lowest-scoring team, she said.
There would also be raffles and an auction, a cash bar and supper. Extra games would be run between rounds and also have prizes.
Items in the auction included a bow hunting adventure, a fishing trip out of Moeraki, a catered Vietnamese-themed dinner and cocktails at your home for four people, a Cromwell escape package for two people and a working bee with 10 people doing the winner’s bidding for four hours.
People and businesses had been generous in their donations for raffles, auctions and contributing to the running costs so the fundraising got the maximum boost.
If anyone wanted to join the evening but did not have a team of eight, the organisers would help, she said.
