United Nations Award for Santa Style

The United Nations Global Action Youth Fund is an international award which recognises students under the age of 18 years who are taking action to address global challenges at IB World Schools and beyond.

Santa Style is a student-led HSIE Enterprise co-curricula. It is a sustainability social enterprise business initiative. As one of 215 schools in Australia offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma program Santa Style was the ONLY Australian awardee of the 2023 Global Youth Action Fund. This award was in recognition of Santa Style students who have worked collaboratively to create a business to disrupt fast fashion landfill by creating a circular flow model of clothing collection and resale aimed to recycle textiles.

The 2023 UN Global Action Fund award invited the following Santa Style students Rochelle Dias, Lucy Gee, Zoe Kearns, Sofia Kearns, Denise Wong, Sienna Nigro, Sienna Evans, Mia Pisano, Bronte Sprotte and Lucia Juarez to be mentored through online forums by members of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Youth. At these forums these Santa Sabina students collaborated with other awardees from across the world exchanging ideas and gained inspiration from one another. A huge thank you to Mrs Vikki Cummins for her work in chaperoning these students within this international mentor program. In 2024 Santa Style aims to expand this ecommerce system, continue to promote socially responsible behaviour and further reduce waste within the Santa Sabina community and beyond. Students who were part of this international program were presented their certificates at the College Assembly. Congratulations!

Brigida Zagora
Head of HSIE (Humanities and Social Sciences)