iServi News | 4 September 2020 | Term 3, Week 7
Lifelink Winter Sleepout
As part of our Christian Service Learning program, 78 students from Year 10 and 11 completed the LifeLink Winter Sleepout at the College on Friday 28 August. To date, students have raised more than $6000.
The program included guest speaker Mr Damian Walsh, Director of ShopFront, a drop-in and referral centre for people who are homeless and/or living with mental illness. Workshops, activities, shared meals and a debrief rounded out the program.
Through the experience of an overnight sleep-out, the program aimed to help students gain an understanding and appreciation of:
- LifeLink and the work of the agencies LifeLink serves
- the prevalence, causes and effects of homelessness
- what we can do to be part of the solution in addressing injustices
- how to be agents of change in making this world a little better.
Students were provided with an opportunity to:
- advocate for LifeLink
- raise much needed donations for LifeLink by having family, friends, neighbours and others sponsor their experience of ‘sleeping rough’.
The program offered opportunities for students to develop important understandings, put faith into action, seek justice for others and enhance the character strengths we desire for them; helping them become all they are created to be.
Our thanks to the wonderful College staff who ensured this event could take place.
Mr Chris Callus
Assistant Deputy Principal – Service and Justice Education