The Price family, Lyndell, Rosie and Katie, are looking for your help this Saturday (February 22) to raise funds to buy school books for a primary school in Arusha, Tanzania, whilst having fun at the same time.

Most readers would remember the popular Karate Kid movie from 1984 when Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles from New Jersey and is bullied at school. He learns karate from Mr Miyagi and ends up fighting his chief bully in a karate tournament.

"Wax on, wax off" is still a much-quoted line today.

The fundraising project is being driven by Rosie and Katie, who are homeschooled by Lyndell, a former teacher.

Rosie and Katie have known about the Heda School in Arusha through Lyndell's friend, Sasha, also a teacher, who visited the school for four weeks last year and raised funds for more crucial services, such as a well.

"They didn't even have water or a toilet," Katie said, "They don't have much."

For those who have climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, the tallest hike in the world, you spend a day at Arusha and stay at Moshi before the climb begins after landing at Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Once Katie and Rosie learned of the struggles of the students and teachers at Heda, they began to ask what basic items they could provide that would improve the education and life.

(Inside a Heda school)

Lyndell explained that Arusha has two Heda schools, one in Arusha called Divine and one just outside of town in a Maasai village in Laroi.

"It was the cost of land and buildings in Arusha, they couldn't get another enough area, so that's why they went out of town. In Arusha, it started as a daycare, and then it just sort of became a school.

"It's preschool to class 6, which is about 15 years old, and then out at Laroi, it's four years old, so a preschool to 16 years so that's class 7, that's their final year of school.

"They have 185 pupils in Divine and 148 pupils in Laroi, and the class 7 live out at Leroy, so they can make sure that nothing interrupts their education, and they get that a proper education.

As far as the educational material teachers used to educate the students, there were a few ripped posters on the wall. The main way to learn is through singing.

"Coming from a very technology-based system, where we have all these resources, having to teach with no textbooks and where you can't photocopy things is heartbreaking."

This isn't the first time that Rosie and Katie have raised money for the Heda schools.

"The girls did a Christmas photo booth at the Tilera Markets. That was just a gold coin donation, and people could use a photo booth. We sent the money to Bobo (teacher) from that, it was only $150, and they bought a bunch of textbooks.

"They sent us pictures back of them with the textbooks and the video of the class saying 'thank you'. It takes about 48 hours from us sending the money to them, before Bobo goes and buys the books because they had no textbooks.

Lyndell explained that the textbooks are government endorsed.

"Bobo sent me a thing saying the Education Minister over there has come out and said that they're going to start doing testing for literacy and numeracy. The school gets inspected, and one of the things that the inspection kept on saying was their lack of textbooks.

"We did send another 190 (textbooks) because a couple of people can't come to our movie night, so a few people just gave me cash, and I just send it to her straight away. She said she's buying it for the Year 2 class this time because that's the year that they get tested.

The Price's have learned that the best way to contribute to the textbooks is by sending money. Lyndell's friend Sasha had sent some science posters, which cost $75 in postage and took three months to get to Arusha.

The goal for Saturday's Karate Kid movie night at the Star Court Theatre is about $3,500.

"The Tanzanian dollars gone up, so it's about $4,000 now. Maybe it'll go back down. But whatever we make is good. $3,500 would be absolutely amazing.

If the $3,500 target were reached, Bobo would buy a teacher textbook, and the students would have one textbook per three kids as that is how the classroom is set up.

Karate Kid was selected because Rosie enjoys karate at Miyagi Kan Goju Ryu Karate Dojo in South Lismore.

"We thought it was a nice movie because I like karate, and when I watched it, it was a good movie, so I thought that would be a nice one," Rosie said.

Karate Kid will be playing at the Star Court Theatre this Saturday (February 22) at 2pm. The cost is $12 per ticket.

Raffle tickets will be available to raise further funds. There are prizes from Miyagi Kan, Bonsai Bliss, ADP Electrical and more.

You can book tickets through the Star Court Theatre website.

If you are still only thinking about seeing a classic old movie, maybe Rosie can convince you. She gave her reasons as to why her and Katie are fundraising.

"Because some people are less fortunate than us, and we can do something about it. It's nice that we're making a change."