A bunch of job-seekers are raising money for charity while honing their skills by creating daffodils with a difference.
A Good Support – a not-for-profit organisation that provides training programs for those on the Work for the Dole scheme – launched the Daffodil Day project last week to raise money for the Cancer Council’s annual appeal.
Participants have created daffodil artwork from paint, mosaic and recycled materials to sell at a silent auction at Bunnings in Footscray later this month.
Volunteer Allison Jordan is taking part in the project, which is run out of a Tottenham workshop.
“A lot of people know of, or have lost, someone affected by cancer and this was a good way to step away from our own situation and think of others,” she said.
A Good Support director Adrian Sartiano said there were 26,000 eligible candidates for Work for the Dole across the region.
“Every activity we do is community-based and ranges from horticulture, mosaic, recycling wood pallets [into furniture] and even bike refurbishment,” he said. “You hear that whole negative stigma attached to people on the dole, but it’s not true. They’re brilliant, very insightful and just need to be given a chance.”
