Students, Profs to Travel to South Africa During Spring

The Elizabethtown group will take with them seven used wind instruments. The other 40, which had been collected by music education and psychology students, had previously been shipped to the school, which Devroop chose from several proposals he had received. That school, located in Pietermaritzburg, has about 1,300 students, 370 of which have lost one or both parents. Students live either with an ailing grandparent or they are homemakers, meaning they live by themselves, according to Devroop. “They live on one solid meal a day and walk about 30 to 45 minutes each way to school,” he said. “Almost all students are faced with extreme poverty.”