By CASEY NEILL
Bangholme students and teachers swapped their beds for cardboard boxes to raise $12,000 for homeless people.
Cornish College hosted a winter sleepout on Friday 10 June to support charity Swags for Homeless, which distributes backpack beds to people without a roof over their head.
More than 60 students and 11 staff created a cardboard box village and got an insight to what life is like for people living on the streets.
They also made 560 cheese and vegemite sandwiches on the night for the EatUp program, which feeds children in the community who’d otherwise go hungry.
Cornish College Chaplain Jarrod Davies organised the event.
“It’s fantastic to see so many of our students and staff committed to helping others,” he said.
“Sleeping out on a cold, wet winter evening is no mean feat but everyone showed huge community spirit and wanted to live our motto and ‘make a difference’ for over 125 people sleeping on our streets.”
Cornish College winter sleep out last year raised more than $10,800 and bought 127 backpack beds.
