Under privileged families in Mexico will benefit from an Otumoetai College community project next year that has been helped by a generous donation from All Black Conrad Smith.
A group of 34 students and adults will travel to Mexico in April to construct and furnish two houses paid for by the group's own fundraising.
The deserving families are selected by BreakFree Expeditions, which is organising the trip, and it will be the second time a group from the school has made the journey to Mexico.
The first house was built by students last year for a family that had been living on a dirt floor with old packing cases for walls and no services.
The two new houses will be built next door and it is hoped that over the years a community of houses will be established by successive groups from Otumoetai College.