Pupils at St Mary’s Parish Primary School want the Williamstown community to share the love this month through a project to help 1500 families.
The children are taking up weekly collections of food and household essentials for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s foodbank in Footscray, with the aim of collecting at least 1500 items.
The collections are part of a month-long pilot project dubbed The Way of The West to engage with and support the centre.
School principal Jim Sheedy said the children had visited the resource centre and foodbank to learn about why people sought asylum and the circumstances in which they lived.
“Our aim was not to tell the children what to think but to give them the information and experiences to think for themselves,” he said. “We couldn’t be prouder of their response.”
The resource centre’s food truck, which delivers food to asylum-seeker families, parked outside St Mary’s church last Sunday and parishioners were invited to help stock it with fresh produce and with cereals, nuts, dried fruit, spreads, canned foods and toiletries.
