At Secondary assembly today 4 Year 11 students spoke about the 40 Hour Famine, which is on this weekend. The students watched a 2 minute video about the "terrible" condition of young people in Australia being forced to attend compulsory school. The message was very clever. You can watch it here.
Finances raised will be going towards India. The focus this year is on child labour, trafficking and slavery which involve 45 million children every day in India; worldwide it is over 200 million. Every day children are denied rights that many children in Australia have and sometimes take for granted: food, clothing, education, being able to play, healthcare.
Vanessa Simmonds reminded students that the famine is on this weekend but that students can do it at other times and that they can go without food, furniture, ipod, mobile and so on; she shared that she is going without talking as that is something really important to her! Eloise Boutry let students know that they can still receive a book and to keep collecting sponsors, even after they have completed the famine. Jess Irwin shared that we raised a whopping $11,000 last year.
Our target this year is $15,000 with Mr Wright promising he would dress up as “Where’s Wally” if this is reached. Finally Caitlin Clarke announced that in addition to students getting sponsors we would also be having two fund raising activities and that they needed to ‘stay tuned’ for details which were exclusive at present.
It is so encouraging to see children at Covenant not only concerned about but being willing to do something about the lives of children in India.
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