By CASEY NEILL
Minaret College students collected a mountain of clothing to help the homeless.
Year 8 students at the Springvale school initiated the three-week drive and donated the results to Launch Housing, Victoria’s largest housing and homelessness support provider.
Student Walid said: “I feel that it is amazing that young people like us are donating to homeless people so that people who live on the street can feel warmth on these cold nights.”
Classmate Laela said it helped her to develop leadership skills, but also to develop spiritually and emotionally.
“This has helped me realise that my problems are nothing compared to these poor, homeless people,” she said.
As a committee, students created lunchtime rosters to supervise a room set aside for receiving clothing donations.
“As the donations came flowing in, I felt a great joy that we could impact our community positively,” Nameera said.
Students learnt from Launch Housing that 22,000 people across the state were homeless, and how they could help.
“I feel that these homeless people deserve the same opportunities as us – we are all equal,” another student said.
