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As winter sets in, we know that a lot of people in our region will go to sleep tonight without a home. Many young people, in fact, some 80 young teenagers in Shepparton will be homeless tonight....that is EVERY NIGHT.
At Notre Dame College, students from MacKillop and McGann Houses recently met with Jim Gow of Salvation Army Youth Services. After speaking with Jim, it was decided that instead of a blanket drive or donating clothing or sleeping bags, the best way to help those needing support is to provide gift cards. These can then be purchased for essential items.
Over the next few weeks, the students will be raising money for those gift cards via the Mercy Blend Café by selling waffles before school from 8:15am - 8:45am.
We need your help!
We are seeking your help in our College canteen between 10:00am - 1:30pm daily. By volunteering, you'll ensure our students have a smooth lunchtime experience. We understand your time is precious, so to show our appreciation, lunch will be provided. Your assistance is greatly appreciated!
CLICK HERE TO VOLUNTEER!Sustainability News
The damage caused to our planet and to ourselves by plastic pollution is well documented. Our world is literally choking on plastic waste with every ecosystem on the planet – on land and water – under threat.
Realising the urgency of the situation, world leaders including our Australian environment minister Murray Watt this month took another critical step towards a global treaty on tackling the life cycle of plastic around the world, from production to consumption and into waste when they committed to the Nice Wake Up Call in France.
Humanity can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to the damage being caused by plastic.
As a result, our Terra Tomodachi team is supporting the global movement Plastic Free July by asking every student and staff member of our school to go soft plastic free during the final week of this term and the first two weeks of term three.
If every student in our school substituted soft plastics such as glad wrap or zip lock bags for reusable lunch boxes or beeswax wraps for three weeks, we estimate up to 1000 pieces of plastic per day could be kept out of our landfill bins. That’s 15,000 soft plastics.
When it comes to making sacrifices to care for our environment, that shows how what seems like only a little bit can quickly add up to a big difference.
At Notre Dame College we want to be a school that proactively seeks to make the changes required to care for our environment.
Join us in saying no to soft plastics this July, and all the time.
