Gold Coin Donantions
May 23, 2025
It is so easy to send a child off to school with a gold coin donation for one cause or another without really thinking about the incredible cumulative impact of everyone doing this. Whilst $1 or $2 on its own may not seem significant, when added together it has the capacity to make a sizeable donation that any one individual family likely would never be able to do.
The money from Harmony Week combined to a total over $1,000. In a first, we made the decision to take this money and go shopping for donations for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, rather than simply transferring the money online. Three of our Social Justice Captains from Junior and Senior School, as well as one of our Year 11 students, spent time after school at Cranbourne Park shopping for specials and finding items that will be useful and appreciated by the refugees and asylum seekers who use this service. A big thanks to Lokavya, Bella, Sahej and Khloe for the compassionate and thoughtful way they went about the task of buying the donations.
On 2 June we are going to Dandenong to deliver them personally, which we are really looking forward to.
Grateful thanks to all families who contributed to this appeal, including Bazil’s Catering who supported it with their wonderful Harmony Week lunches.
