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CBS Mitchelstown students James Meaney and Conor Peppard who are travelling to Berlin with the Concern Campaign Academy.

In a time when child obesity is one of the big issues of the day, three students from CBS Mitchelstown have been campaigning about Concern's 'Food Right Now' campaign and two of those have been selected to travel to Berlin with the Concern Campaign Academy.

They all wrote essays about the Concern campaign and how things like food production, consumption and extreme hunger and poverty can impact on people who are in poor countries and were chosen to go along with some other selected few from different schools. 

Conor Peppard and James Meaney were selected to go to Berlin, while Cormac Sheehan is on a reserve list in case someone can't go. The boys will be travelling over with other members of the Concern Campaign Academy from Limerick, Clondalkin, Dundrum and Tralee. They will travel over at the beginning of May.

The boys are both very active in their campaigning so far and to highlight the plight which is faced by those people who Concern help. They have taken part in workshops on food shortage and climate change and were also part of a protest outside Leinster House in November when they were urging Minister Phil Hogan to take action at a world summit in Doha.

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