While thousands of people took action over the Be More weekend, the ‘Wombat Warblers’ of St Patrick's Primary School Nanango have the distinction of literally stopping traffic.

For those who have not followed the ‘warblers’, they are a group of twenty three group five students and their teacher Mr Bill Mulcahy, who take their name from school mascot ‘Russel the wombat’ and the student’s love of learning through conversation.

The students have a particular interest in Uganda after this year’s Project Compassion story focused on Teopista, a subsistence farmer in the region.

To stand in solidarity with the children of Uganda, who can walk as far as six kilometres for water, the ‘warblers’ walked from noon on Saturday 8 August till 6pm, starting again at 6am on the Sunday and finishing at midday.

If that wasn’t hard enough students carried buckets of water, as wombat warbler’ Emily explained, “To feel how hard it is for them”.

This is an example of what Mr Mulachy calls ‘experiential learning,’ a genuine hands on approach to development education.

As students and their teacher collectively clocked up 498km (which is further than Sydney to Tamworth!), cars stopped at the side of the road to donate money to the students.

Such spontaneous donations helped the ‘warblers’ to raise over $2,500.

Two of the ‘warbles’, Emily and Stephanie even managed to complete sixty circuits of the school, a whopping 36km each.

However it wasn’t all walk and no play as the night was spent camping out, enjoying a bbq, playing games, watching DVDs and singing karaoke to SingStar; in short enjoying community.

The Wombat Warblers illustrate the Be More ethos that in giving we really do receive.