VCAL - Request for

Building Donations

to help 2 Charities

 

 

 

Request for Building Material Donations

~ Are you a Landscape Gardener?

~ Do you work in the Horticultural Industry?

~ Do you have access to building supplies?

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In 2018 St Bede’s College VCAL students will participate in the Food Security Program. This program is designed to encourage skill growth, community engagement and social awareness……but we cannot begin without your assistance.  

Students will build garden beds, plant and cultivate crops twice a year. The students will then harvest the crops and donate them to two charities.  Either:

(1)  Fair Share Kitchen:

What is FareShare?

Our Vision:       A society where food is not wasted and no one goes hungry.

Our Mission:   Rescue food that would otherwise be wasted.  Cook and distribute nutritious meals

                               to people in need.  Inspire and empower action on food rescue and hunger.

FareShare rescues surplus food and cooks free, nutritious meals for Victorians doing it tough.

Since 2016, FareShare has also been growing their own vegetables to supplement what they can rescue for our nutritious meals. FareShare Kitchen Gardens now occupy 2.5 acres on three urban sites where they grow a range of veggies such as carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato and zucchini.

Every year, 3.6 million Australians will experience food insecurity. But, over the same period, we’ll also waste more than 360kg of food for every man, woman and child in the nation.FareShare’s operations help avoid food waste and divert surplus, edible food from landfill. This reduces greenhouse pollution and ensures food produced for humans reaches those who need it most.  They are a not-for-profit community organisation operating on a modest budget – thanks to the generosity of philanthropic foundations, businesses and private donors.

(2) The ASRC (Asylum Seekers Resource Centre):

The mission of the ASRC is to ensure that all those seeking asylum in Australia have their human rights upheld and that those seeking asylum in our community receive the support and opportunities they need to live independently. They are focused on both empowering asylum seekers towards self-determination, as well as educating the community about asylum seekers.

We are looking for the following NEW materials: 

•    Cypress Pine Sleepers

               130m  X 0.200m  X 0.075m

•    Star pickets

              45 x 900mm long

•    Garden Tools

             Square mouth Shovels

             Landscape rakes

•    Soil

-            11 square metres

All donating companies will be acknowledged with signage on the College fence adjacent to the garden – highly visible to street traffic.