Global Citizens

Cooking for a Cause!

 Year 12 VET Kitchen Operations students are working towards their VCE/VET qualification whilst supporting the building of a primary school in the remote Hudad region of Ethiopia.  The students are cooking Ethiopian food to be served at the Friends of the Hudad Benefit in Melbourne on Saturday, and are expecting to feed up to 250 people whilst raising funds to support the school building project.  You can find out more about this initiative, or even support the cause, at:

https://friendsofthehudad.org

https://chuffed.org/project/the-friends-of-the-hudad

The photographs show students preparing food in the Etty Street kitchen, the Ethiopian food to be served, and the Hudad children awaiting a new school building!

Caroline Cook

Youth Parliament Success

On the first week of school holidays on Tuesday the 4th a team of strong and enthusiastic Castlemaine Secondary College debaters set out to pass our Environmental Footprint of Edible Consumables Classification Bill early in the morning. It was a strong debate and when it came down to the final vote it was an almost unanimous vote in favour of the Bill and we give a big thanks to the Glen Waverley team for their strong opposing debating. On the Thursday we also had to refute Glen Waverley's team and it was an incredibly well written Bill and almost impossible to refute. Now that our Bill is through the Youth Parliament Process it was handed onto the Youth Minister and she can choose if to pursue the Bill. The rest of the YMCA program was absolutely amazing and an experience that I would recommend highly to everyone interested. Throughout this journey we had so much support and encouragement and our whole team would love to give a huge thanks to Mr Samuel our school mentor through out this whole process who has helped us so much!!! We would also love to give Ally from the Youth Parliament training team a big thanks for helping put together our Bill. And lastly a huge thanks to everyone in the broader community for getting behind us and for your incredible support. No mater how this Bill pans out, we are still going to try and continue and improve our school canteen model, in the hope that we can show the broader school community how far and where their canteen food comes from. On a last note I would love to personally thank my whole team for all their enthusiasm and support to not only the Bill but to me through out the entirety of this program!!!

-Sidney Showell Media Editor

Check out some of media articles:

https://ymcapressgallery.com/2017/07/05/youth-parliament-turns-focus-to-environment/

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4772348/pupils-set-the-agenda/