On Thursday 23 October, a group of 14 Year 10 and 11 students participated in making hampers for the homeless during lunchtime.
The Melbourne City Mission is a leading profit for purpose organisation, supporting and offering services in Early Years, Disability, Homelessness, Palliative Care and Education for whom we helped out. We packed more than 20 hampers, each containing a variety of sanitary and hygiene items such as toothbrushes, hair washes, soaps and sanitary products.
We had the guidance of Ms Charli Bartlett, who gave us an insight into the lives of a lot of these homeless women, and why it is important to care for them. The students learnt a lot from this session and saw the significance of volunteering in such initiatives in order to improve the livelihood of women in need. All the students got to write their own messages to these women and got to give them a little bit of encouragement and hope.
We were so grateful that we got such an important opportunity to give back to the community and are planning to continue to contribute and volunteer as much as we can in the near future. I’d like to thank all the social work placement students and Mr Grant who gave us this opportunity.
By Tejasvi S
Year 11
