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VCE Mt Hotham Snow Camp

I liked the camp because it gave us enough time to learn how to snowboard and be self-sufficient in the snow. I can’t wait to go again. I rate this camp 10/10. Jamie Porker

It was fun to learn how to snowboard and meet some new people. It was a great chance to improve our snowboard skills from last year and get to know a new alpine environment. James Charlton and Mason Tacke

Last week our VCE students had the opportunity to embark on a 3-day Ski Camp at Mt Hotham. Students chose to either snowboard or ski. Each day the students had a ski lesson with a qualified instructor to improve their skill acquisition. In the lodge students were responsible for planning and cooking their own meals. Thanks to Trudy Woods and Michael Besley for attending and supporting this camp as staff members.

Cole Waters

CSC Outdoor Education Teacher

VCAL Student with a heart of gold!

Renee Lochhead, a senior VCAL student at Castlemaine Secondary College has a heart of gold! She is undertaking a School-Based Hospitality Apprenticeship whilst completing Year 12, and will be putting her cooking skills to good use in her current project "Hearts for Hamlin", to raise money for the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation in Ethiopia.

Renee's project; "Hearts for Hamlin" will see her partnering with the Konjo Mama Ethiopian Food Van to cook and sell Ethiopian food for this social enterprise initiative.  Renee will be cooking a range of savoury dishes to be sold from the Konjo Mama Food Van at the Castlemaine Artists' Market in September, as well as baking shortbread hearts, flavoured with cardamon to give them an Ethiopian twist, to be sold to friends, family, the school and community.  Renee will be supported in her project by the FRRR Community Connect Program.

Catherine and Reg Hamlin, pioneering Australian surgeons, founded the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia almost 60 years ago.  To date 55,000 women have been treated, many midwives trained, and numerous hospitals established in both Ethiopia and Uganda.  The hospitals treat women who have suffered the horrendous - and preventable - childbirth injury: obstetric fistula.  The aim of the Hamlin Foundation today is to ensure the health and dignity of mothers by treating and preventing terrible childbirth injuries that leave them incontinent, humiliated and cut off from their communities.  

Just $600 is required to fund one fistula operation to restore a woman's life.  Renee is hoping that her project will go a long way towards restoring health and dignity to a fistula patient.

You can help Renee by  buying a meal or a shortbread heart, or by making a donation through:

https://hamlinfistulafundraising.everydayhero.com/au/hearts-for-hamlin