Community
9 August, 2024
Officeworks gets on board
OFFICEWORKS Warrnambool has jumped on board to support an initiative by a group of primary school children to support those less fortunate in Tanzania.
Students from St Patrick’s Primary School in Port Fairy have been busy in recent months preparing home-made material pencil cases to send to children overseas through The Bandari Project.
Led by year 5/6 teacher and sustainability leader Benson Steere, the students have been collecting recycled fabrics from local families to upcycle into pencil cases.
“We will shortly be sending the pencil cases overseas but the students wanted to also send them filled with stationery,” Mr Steere said.
“So we reached out to Officeworks and they were happy to support us by donating rulers, coloured pencils, erasers, glue sticks, sharpeners and other items.
“We’re all very excited by this donation and I’m sure the recipients in Tanzania will be even more so.”
Year six students Ben Mirtschin and Kolo Sakate were in-store late last week to collect the items.
“My dad Seif was a co-founder of The Bandari Project; he was born in Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania, so this project is extra special to us,” Kolo said.
“We’re very grateful to Officeworks for helping us out.”
