16 students from Brandt Christian School went on an adventure and were part of an experience that they'll never forget.

In January the students travelled south of the border down to Tijuana, Mexico to help build a home for a needy and deserving family.

Principal Kevin Bailey says the school was hoping to do a trip like this in order to give their students a chance to give back and look at the bigger picture in the world.

"I thought it would give them a lot of benefit in terms of creating some independence in their own abilities but to expose them to a good portion of the world in terms of how they do live and how little they have and get by on," he says. "But also the opportunity to allow them to build and to get satisfaction and see what that's like."

The cost to build the home with the rough exchange rate from the American to Canadian dollar cost just over $10,000 not including airfare to get down to Mexico.

Bailey says they made the most of their time in Tijuana not just building their house but doing anything they could to make just a little bit easier for locals.

"It took us two days to build this home which would be about the size of a two car garage here in Canada. But for the people living in Tijuana that's a good sized home, certainly than what they were living in. We also had the students serve in a soup kitchen in the mornings and they also visited an orphanage while they were there."

Bailey says the trip really opened the eyes of the students at what turned out to be an amazing contribution to society.

"The children that they played with or even with the adults that they communicated with they were still joyful people. They weren't extremely negative, they weren't hard to get along with. They were happy with what they had and that amazed the kids because these people had so little and yet they still had joy and that hit home to the kids a lot."