“The Eat My Lunch fundraiser is an Ethics Committee initiative... when we were finally able to hold Eat My Lunch, it was supported by over 1200 Dio students and staff. This meant that over 1200 children in Auckland received a healthy school lunch as well.” was not only interrupted by the April lockdown, but our delayed celebrations were further postponed because of the August lockdown. However, when we were finally able to hold Eat My Lunch, it was supported by over 1200 Dio students and staff. This meant that over 1200 children in Auckland received a healthy school lunch as well.
Ethics matters Over the course of such an unexpected year of cancellations and postponements, the Student Ethics Committee worked enthusiastically to ensure our important traditions of listening to and sharing the student body’s differing perspectives on contemporary ethical issues continued, even though COVID-19 restrictions meant we had to use innovative methods to connect with the School community.
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ortunately, our long-standing events, the annual Soapbox Competition and the Eat My Lunch fundraiser, were still able to run and were extra special as a result, opening passionate ethical dialogues about the current social, political and economic global climate.
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The Eat My Lunch fundraiser is an Ethics Committee initiative, originally intended to celebrate our School’s birthday. Eat My Lunch is a social enterprise in Auckland that, for every lunch bought, donates a lunch to a child in a low-decile school. This year we were unable to hold the event on Dio’s birthday as it
The Student Ethics Committee decided that they would end the year on a high note, with a luncheon in School House. We invited Professor Peter Gluckman, - : The the founder and head of Koi Tu Centre for Informed Futures at The University of Auckland, to the lunch so that we could hear from one of New Zealand’s foremost thinkers. Professor Gluckman is well known to New Zealanders in his previous position as the first Science Advisor to then Prime Minister John Key, and globally as the founder of the Liggins Institute. - is a think tank that is designed to Koi Tu counter the global rise of misinformation and declining public trust with accurate research and evidence-based findings. In particular, the committee was interested in hearing about the latest report from Professor Gluckman and the Centre on youth and mental health. The report described the deterioration in young people’s mental wellbeing as ‘a silent pandemic of psychological distress’. Poor mental health for youth has doubled in 10 years (as it has in other places in the western world) and is worsening. Further, there is an inequitable impact on Ma-ori, Pacific Island youth, rainbow and queer youth, and young women.
