General News
20 September, 2024
Students help pound
Two local students have spent the last couple of months fundraising for the local animal shelter — and with a deep love for their furry friends bolstering their efforts, the pair have successfully donated nearly a hundred cans of cat food.
Quinn and Zoe, who are part of Maryborough Education Centre’s (MEC) year five and six cohort respectively, have worked hard for all of term three to sell handmade bracelets during recess.
The duo managed to collect $150 from their sales, and have purchased 91 cans for the pound, “to support the upcoming seasonal influx of kittens and to support other animals”.
“I really love animals and I think they deserve all the food that they can eat to be healthy so we decided to raise some money for that,” Quinn said.
“I’m happy that we’ve done it.
“I would want to do it next year too and it’d also be nice to have more students helping me and Zoe.”
According to MEC’s teacher, Sarah Hunt, the girls displayed a great deal of enthusiasm on this “passion project”.
“It was something they really wanted to do and we like to facilitate them in these situations,” she said.
“Doing things like this, I think it makes the kids really community-minded.
“They’ve also learnt a lot of new skills as a result — they designed the posters to advertise their product, they wrote letters to the principal to make sure that they had all the permissions, and they kept a tab on the money so there was a lot happening.”
