Parent Palu Fine helped to rally the troops after hearing that the charity store was having to turn away families suffering hardship.
“Students from Kindergarten to Year 6, brought in a range of items including hygiene products like toothpaste, soap and deodorant, non-perishables like noodles, cans of tuna, tinned fruit and vegetables, tea, sugar, coffee, biscuits, pasta sauce, Milo, long-life milk, shampoo and even socks while the staff donated blankets and feminine hygiene products,” she said.
“It was so touching and it just shows how our little school has such a big heart and if our kindergarteners can do it, I invite others in the community to also donate any items they can spare to St Vinnies.”
School Principal Mr Kelley Conlan said the 2024 Vinnies Winter Appeal focused on the working homeless, an emerging group of people who were encountering housing hardship and disadvantage despite being in employment.
“These families need our love and kindness,” he said.
“Thank you to all of our families who supported our school initiative to assist the good works of the St Vincent de Paul Society.”
School community digs deep to ease hardship in Winter Appeal
AFTER sending a wish list of needed items home with each student at St Therese’s Catholic Primary School in Lakemba, the children and their families have dug deep to come up with several carloads of donations delivered earlier this month to St Vinnies Bankstown.
