Heartless vandals have stolen £2000 earmarked for disadvantaged children in Malawi from a school in Glasgow’s south side.

Pupils from Hillpark Secondary School had been working tirelessly to raise the cash for the “life changing” charity work in the African country.

A successful weekend saw the pupils generate £2000 through a tombola, raffle, face painting, and race night.

But on Monday, September 23, “mindless” vandals broke into the school, stealing the hard-earned cash from the safe.

Glasgow Times: Devastated pupils and staff at Hillpark Secondary (Picture: Colin Mearns)Devastated pupils and staff at Hillpark Secondary (Picture: Colin Mearns)

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A GoFundMe page has since been set up by pupils and staff hoping to make up for the money lost.

Around £600 has been raised in the space of five days, but pupils say they’re heartbroken at having to start from scratch.

One of the pupils, Rachel Waugh, said: “We’re devastated, it’s really quite a shame. 

“We worked so hard to raise that money over and above what we all need to raise individually. 

“Every weekend we’ve been out doing fundraisers, tombolas, anything we can do to raise the money.

“We’re up before people are even awake to set up, and for that all to be wasted and have to start again is disappointing to say the least.

“It’s just disgusting. I don’t understand why they would do it. 

“I think it’s really unfair and cruel."

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Another student, Hamish Stewart, added:“I spent months organising a race night on the Friday night and it went really well, and for it all to be stolen by the Monday is really sad.

“This is affecting people on the other side of the world, it’s not really fair.

“It’s really sad that we’ve put so much effort into that and it’s all been put to waste. 

“It’s just frustrating.”

A Glasgow City Council spokesperson said: “The young people have worked so hard to raise the valuable funds for their Malawi project and are devastated at the mindless acts of vandalism and criminal activity.

“They held a very successful charity event that was hosted by pupils in the weekend prior and money was secured in the school safe.

“Anyone with any information about the break in should contact the police.”

Glasgow Times: Pupils assess the damagePupils assess the damage

A Police Scotland spokesperson confirmed they are aware of the incident and enquiries are ongoing.

Anyone with information is urged to call police via 101 quoting incident number 0371 of September 24.

You can donate to the fundraiser on GoFundMe.