Diggers Rest Primary School students have dug deep once again for their student-led fundraiser.
This year, the student leadership team has organised a school-wide fundraiser for Joan Kirner Newborn Services at Western Health.
After the big success of the snuggle heart drive earlier this year, the students have now organised a school-wide Walk For Prems, raising over $1700.
The funds raised will then go towards purchasing bilingual children’s books for the services in languages like Vietnamese, Burmese, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Tamil and Punjabi.
“The families that use the newborn services at Joan Kirner come from a range of different backgrounds, so the idea is to create a children’s library in the Joan Kirner Newborn Services that has books in all the languages of the community that’s using that service,” principal Brad Kemp said.
On Friday, August 8, students dressed up in purple and ran or walked 1.6 kilometres for the 1600 premature babies born at Joan Kirner Newborn Services every year.
Students also got to enjoy a sausage sizzle and guess the lollie jar as well, which all contributed to their fundraising goal.
Mr Kemp said it was a great opportunity for students to get involved, with the team ecstatic by the results they achieved.
“Being able to see the efforts they put in through planning an event like this for the community, and connecting with the newborn services themselves and then actually seeing the impact of raising money that directly goes to supporting families … this has been probably the best teaching point they’re going to experience all year,” he said.
