When primary school students returned to their classrooms three days ago, forty more children had enrolled at St. Luke Methodist School bringing the grand total to seven hundred and eighty, that means the challenge becomes even greater for the principal and staff to ensure that all their students have the necessary resources to help them in their first term at school. And that’s where the Lifeline Foundation comes in. They made a significant donation of exercise books to St. Luke’s and 7NEWS was there.
Pamela Bodden, Principal – St. Luke’s Methodist
“We here at St. Luke’s, we always engage our children in a lot of writing activities and the exercise books will provide an avenue for that skill to be developed. At the infant one level the children do a lot of writing, because they are just developing that skill, and so the teachers I am sure will be very grateful and they will make good use of that.”
Jacqueline Godwin,
And sometimes it is even difficult for these boys and girls to even be able to purchase an exercise book.
Pamela Bodden,
“That’s quite true. We are distributing some today to our infant
children and we will have the others, we will keep them in the office stored and they will be available for children like you’ve mentioned who would not be able to purchase a book from time to time.”
Katherine Meighan, Benny’s
“We’ve been working with Lifeline for quite some time now and we’re proud to be one of their sponsors and this project is just a small project where we gave them exercise blanks, 1,000 of them, so that they could then distribute to kids in need. Ultimately what we feel is organizations or foundations like Lifeline whose sole objective is to give back to those in need or to identify and then give back, is the best possible way of us giving.”
Karen Bevans, Lifeline Foundation
“It is a personal satisfaction. In fact we are all, I would say, working professionals and we take of our personal time to give back to the community because that is what we want in life, we want to see the joy on the kids’ face when they receive these things and we want to make them better able to perform in society, give them equal opportunities like we had in the past. So our benefit or our motivation is seeing the smiles on these faces.”
After supplying St. Luke Methodist Primary School with the students exercise books, Lifeline headed to two more southside learning institutions, Queen Square and Calvary Temple where similar donations were made.
