A group from Blue Ridge Community College is planning to return to Haiti to work on rebuilding a school destroyed by a major earthquake in January.

The group Students in Free Enterprise was in Haiti working with people at a school in Riviere Friode when the earthquake hit.

On Wednesday, 12,000 pounds of building materials will leave the Valley and head to Haiti via Florida. The shipment is expected to be ready to be put to use in Haiti in about six to eight weeks.

"After you get over the shock of being in the middle of something like that, you start thinking automatically about what you can do to help. And our students have decided basically that there is no way Haiti can move forward if their people are not educated. And, a school in a village in Haiti is a lifeline," says Rebecca Evans, lead faculty adviser for the SIFE program and one of the people in Haiti during the earthquake.

The school is considered a prototype building and will also house 25 kids. Evans says other organizations are interested in looking at the project and possibly replicating it in other parts of Haiti.

Evans says she and others from BRCC aim to return to Haiti in late summer to work on the school.