Year 10 Community Challenge 2019

Congratulations to all of the Year 10 Community Challenge projects. The details of each project is outlined below. A big thank you to Karen Money and Mella Pescos for determining the winners for 2019.

10C1

Collected bottle caps to be donated to Envision, a company that uses recycled plastic to create prosthetic limbs.

10C2

Raised awareness for youth homelessness by inviting two guest speakers to present about organisations which support youth homelessness and showing a movie at lunchtime.

10C3

Collected bras for the Uplift Project which donates bras to the Solomon Islands.

10L1

Collected rubbish on the Yarra River in support of Take 3 for the Sea.

10L2

Collected food in support of the Asylum Resource Centre by holding a food swap where students and staff received a baked good in exchange for donated food.

10L3

Ran a trivia quiz about pollution and ocean at lunchtime and cleaned up the Yarra River and MGC school grounds to promote support of Project Aware.

10M1

Help clean up the local environment by cleaning up the Yarra River as a class during Wellbeing.

10M2

Collected sanitary products for the organisation “Share the Dignity” and held a bake swap where donated items received a baked good in return.

10M3

Helped the wellbeing of our fellow students by organizing to have two dogs come to the school and visit students in classes, this can be seen to help students with anxiety or other issues and can make the school environment feel more welcoming and calmer. We also wanted to help raise awareness for dog adoption and promote adopting over purchasing from breeders, while educating people on the adoption process.

10R1

On Thursday the 7th November 10R1 as a class visited Abbotsford’s Lentil as Anything restaurant. We chose to make this visit, where we contributed over $300 for the support of the restaurant, as we highly valued the business’ values and ways of operating. All of the meals they provide for customers have a ‘pay as you feel’ policy, where customers pay what they can for various healthy and vegan meals. This way of functioning means that customers of all economic backgrounds can enjoy a meal, unlike other spaces which may be more exclusive. Where possible, all of their food is also sourced from vegetables grown in their own veggie gardens, or ‘rescued’ foods that is perfectly edible, but is at risk of being wasted by markets, super markets and restaurants. This aids in making the Lentil as Anything restaurants, of which there are four in Australia, operate sustainably.

10R2

Participated in a “walkathon” in the heat to raise over $160 and awareness for the Clean Ocean Foundation.

And the winners are…

10L2!!!