WHEN Year 5 Assumption School students heard the plight of Janaki, a young Nepalese woman who grew up in a world of poverty they wanted to do something to help.
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So with the support of their teachers and fellow students Year 5 is busy fundraising for Project Compassion, Caritas Australia's annual Lenten fundraising event.
On Monday the students, with the help of parents made and sold Roti, a type of flat bread, raising $400 for the charity.
Next week, they are having a crazy hair day, which is also a fund raising event.
Deborah Cusick, Year 5 teacher at Assumption said as part of the student’s Religious Education unit they are addressing the theme of social justice; and as a component of this unit the students are exploring the work of Project Compassion and how their outreach programs assist communities in need.
She said the students formed their own Working for Justice Group to help raise money and have come up with one project per week during Lent.
Mrs Cusick said the students were the driving force behind the fundraising effort.
“We just helped facilitate it,” she said.
Mrs Cusick said each week the students learn a new case study and how Project Compassion has helped.
Last week the students learned about Janaki from Nepal, who married at a young age, and was left destitute after her husband died. Project Compassion helped her undertake training, and she now has her own business, employing 18 people.
