WHEN best friends Zanna Gaydon and Olivia Stevens found out that pupils in Uganda did not learn under a school roof, they took action.
The nine-year-old Cumnor Primary School pupils organised a fundraising three-mile canoe journey to raise £400 to build a roof for charity Helping Hands.
On Saturday, they paddled for three miles along the Thames by Filchampstead.
Zanna, from Farmoor, said: “Our school raised money for the classroom but there was no roof, so me and Olivia wanted to raise money.
“I’m very proud of myself because I have never been three miles in a canoe before.”
The money will pay for half the roof, with Zanna and Olivia hoping to raise the rest of the cash after the summer.
Zanna said: “We were thinking of putting blindfolds on for a whole day and going to school.”
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