Recently five Year 9 students from Tarremah Steiner School, Huntingfield cooked 40 meals to be frozen for Kingston Neighbourhood House (KNH).The ingredientsˇwere kindly donated by Year 9 families.ˇ
Year 9 had studied The Simple Gift, a collection of fictional poems about a young boy experiencing homelessness in regional Australia.ˇ
They began looking into the experiences of people during the current cost of living crisis and thinking about what they could do.
The next day, a teacher heard David Morse from KNH speaking on ABC Radio.
KNH provides frozen meals directly to members of the community who are in need, as well as distributing meals to local shelters assisting people facing homelessness.
David spoke about how KNH really needed food donations and meals.
Each class at the school will bring in the ingredients to cook 50 meals for one week in the term.
Year 9 collect these ingredients and cook with them on a Thursday to then donate to KNH.
They are planning on continuing the program until the end of the year.ˇ