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Calvary Christian College Year Eight students have raised over $18,000 for charity through their annual Walkathon, over the last five years.
Every year the Year Eights walk as many laps of the oval as they can in two hours and are raise money through donations and sponsorships per lap.
Collectively the students have covered 4,860 kilometres, which is more than the distance from Brisbane to Perth, and completed 9908 laps of the school oval.
Mrs Susan Prior, Year Eight Coordinator, says, “It’s so important for the students to realise they can use their capabilities to help people less privileged than them.
The students really do get behind the Walkathon and enjoy doing their part. It's important for students to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ."
Students at Calvary are involved in a number of community awareness activities like 40 Hour Famine, Plain Rice Day, Operation Christmas Child, food and blanket appeals and mission trips to Tonga where the students work in Tongan communities and schools.
Principal Cathy Hockey says, “At Calvary it’s about community. We want our young people to be responsible global citizens who care and are active in that care for their world.”
The money raised by the Year Eight Walkathon has bought the following:
Vitamin A Tablets – 10,000 Children
Eye Ointment - 2,000 Children
Education Packs – 11
Toilets -12
Safe water – 12
Chickens – 12
Seed Packages – 12
Tree Seedlings – 12
Fresh water to 9 villages
Glasses – 1,000 children
Health Care Workers – Trained 10
Eye Operations - 4 Children
- 15 Adults
Pakistan Flood Appeal - $1,347.45
Fishers of Men - $4,000 plus food, clothing and blankets
Guide Dogs for the Blind - $800
Tonga Mission Fund - $664.50 |