One of Scotland's largest construction companies has joined forces with Europe's biggest secondary school to provide equipment for pupils undertaking an aid mission to Malawi.

City Building, Glasgow City Council's arms-length construction company, is donating hard hats, high visibility vests, gloves and boots for schoolchildren from Holyrood Secondary School heading to Malawi this Friday (June 15) to build classrooms in a Malawian school.

The Crosshill establishment is Europe's largest state-funded comprehensive and over the last four years, dozens of pupils have built 25 classrooms for deprived kids.

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City Building also has links to the African country. In recent years it has helped with the construction of prosthetics and orthotic clinics and an AIDS clinic.

John Foley of City Building, a former Holyrood pupil, said: "We have always taken a holistic approach to the welfare of our employees and we look to engage with communities far and wide. It's a great pleasure to be able to give something back to the school that gave me and so many others such a good start in life."

John Duffy, who has just retired from Holyrood School as their business manager, said: "We are very grateful for the invaluable help we have received from City Building for our Malawi project, which broadens the horizons of young people."

Paul Carey, chair of City Building, said the Malawi trip echoed the Apprentice Community Projects scheme, where City Building apprentices volunteer their painting, joinery and roofing skills in local communities.

(NE)