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Tuesday December 19 2017
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GIVING BACK: City Harvest chief executive John Milligan (left) and organiser Joshua Jackson load groceries for 50 Christmas dinners into their van at South City New World. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
By Emily O’Connell THE Brethren of Lodge Takahe No. 397, The Freemasons Charity and City Harvest are joining forces to help the hungry at Christmas. Together they are providing a Christmas meal to the homes of 50 families across the city. Organiser Joshua Jackson said the idea is to provide families with quality food items to cook a Christmas meal in their own homes. Some of the food was collected from South City New World last week, with other items from the City Harvest food bank. A team packed and distributed half of the dinners to the chosen families’ homes. This week they will collate the remaining packs for delivery. The packages included a frozen chicken, stuffing, gravy, Christmas pudding, Lindt chocolates and fudge. Mr Jackson said the initiative is slightly different because they are giving families luxury items for a Christmas dinner instead
of “just a normal food parcel”. He hopes the Christmas dinners will relieve stress and spread Christmas joy. “It’s my belief that this drive will serve as a pilot to test the feasibility of potentially running a much larger scale project in subsequent years,” Mr Jackson said.
Marian College students entertain rest home residents EVERY YEAR Marian College runs an inquiry-based project with the junior school. In the final weeks of the term, all year 9-10 students were involved in the end-of-year collaborative unit, exploring the theme of beauty. The teachers got together with their students to develop a programme – on an aspect of beauty which interested them – with the end result being a presentation or performance to the whole junior school. House group, Takahe 3, explored “beauty in giving” and “beauty in older generations”. There were nine students and two teachers – Sarah Southen and Yvonne Teague – in the group. The project involved coming
FRIENDS: Rest home residents enjoy the company of teacher Sarah Southen (left middle) and students Madeline Krijgsman, Maddie Crowther and Courtney Rae (right).
up with a plan and carrying it out. The students made cards and boxes for residents at the nearby St Helenas rest home, baked cup cakes in their own time and bought items to give
away. They also planned a special Christmas trip to the home together. St Helenas was chosen as it was close to the school in Barbadoes St and the residents warmly
welcomed the students. Marian College spokeswoman Fiona McLeod said when the video of the project was shown at school, it “brought tears to the eyes of some
of the softies around here”. •The video can be seen at https://www.facebook. com/mariancollegechch/ videos/863598883818780/
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