PROJECT COMPASSION UPDATE

During Lent, students were asked to bring in donations to place in their homeroom’s project compassion box to help raise awareness and come together in solidarity with the world's poor to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity. Along with the project compassion boxes the SRC held fundraisers for Valentines Day and testing out their new fairy floss machine with all proceeds going to the lenten fundraiser. All together the students raised $2,065.35, which is an outstanding effort. Thank you to everyone who donated money or their time to raise funds for this great cause.

VINNIES WINTER APPEAL

St Joseph’s will again this year be holding a Vinnies winter appeal. Each year, during winter, St Josephs supports our local Vinnies van by collecting non-perishable food items which can be used to feed some of our most vulnerable community members. In the 2017-18 financial year, the Vinnies Van provided more than 16,500 meals and a range of essential items to support those in need. The service also helps foster connections between clients and other support services through referrals.

We encourage every student to bring in at least one food item to go towards our donation to help this service. Food required by the Vinnies van includes pasta and other food sauces, pasta, rice, tinned tomato, corn, vegetables, sugar, tea and coffee, long life milk or any non-perishable food items that they can use to create a hot meal.