{"id":17416,"date":"2025-06-25T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/?post_type=article&p=17416"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:19:02","slug":"message-fro-the-prefects-social-justice-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/article\/message-fro-the-prefects-social-justice-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Prefects: Social Justice Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past semester, we have had a number of social justice initiatives that have been highly successful thanks to the support of the whole College community. We are really excited to give you a recap and reveal the final amount that was raised for these important causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Term 1, we had the annual Caritas Project Compassion fundraiser during which we raised over an incredible $11,000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this period, we had many different events to collect donations, including a delicious bake sale run by Gioia House and pancake sale for Shrove Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, alongside the traditional means of fundraising, this year we introduced an exciting new event as part of this fundraising period. One of the focus areas for Caritas this year was providing access to clean water and sanitation for communities across Africa, Asia and the Pacific. In line with this, we introduced the \u2018Carry for Caritas\u2019 relay race, where the different houses and a special Gioia House team went head to head racing to fill their buckets with water in the fastest amount of time using various containers. These teams relied on the generous donations of their respective house groups to raise money which would \u2018unlock\u2019 better containers to be used as fundraising targets were met; the final target also unlocked fun costumes for the teachers to wear during the race!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was incredibly heartening to see the enthusiasm this generated, with many students and teachers volunteering to represent their House and students donating generously for this initiative \u2013 every single House not only met their targets, but greatly exceeded them too. We would like to give a particular shout out to Gioia House who raised over $4,500!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the Gioia House team ended up taking first place, followed by Yetinga and Weelya!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Term 2 was similarly hugely successful with Santafest fundraising and celebration taking place over the course of Week 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santafest is a week full of community celebration and fundraising for the Kopanang Community Trust and our sister school Montebello in South Africa which has been taking place annually since the early 1990s. Over the course of the week, we raised over $5,500 that will go towards these important causes. Each day consisted of various activities and events, with some of the headline events consisting of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n