Paint the Highway REaD

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On 6 September, Craig and Susan Howlett attended Paint the Highway REaD’s Annual Reading Day event. Taking centre stage, of course, was the story-reading team led by Maxine and the Possum triplets. Our club awarded the team with funds to purchase a portable PA system, put to excellent use at this event.

Paint the Highway REaD is a local version of the Paint the Town REaD campaign, which encourages communities to read, talk, sing and rhyme to babies and young children. As part of the campaign, the REaD volunteers visit libraries, schools, shopping centres and playgroups in the area, conducting reading, singing and play sessions to stimulate literacy and a love of reading.

Nakivale Refugee Settlement Training Centre Project

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Nakivale Refugee Camp is some 300 kilometres south west of Kampala the capitol of Uganda. Nakivale;is one of several refugee camps in Uganda with a population totalling some 130,000 refugees, mostly from the Congo, Sudan and Somalia. The objective of the project is to provide and support self sustainable income producing and educational opportunities for the refugees. These may include such opportunities as the provision of Laptop Computers for training and educational purposes, sewing machines to produce clothing and goods for sale and other opportunities as they arise.

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If you wish to support or sponsor this project you can make fully tax deductible donations through the Nakivale Project on the RAWCS website.

Southern River College Lego Program

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We welcomed Southern River College Chaplain, Martin Wynn to a recent Club meeting where he spoke about his pastoral care at the College. Martin supports students, parents and staff helping them navigate friendship issues, bullying, anxiety and depression, ADHD and when necessary, assesses suicide risk.

Martin use Lego in his work and finds tt a really useful aid in his social/emotional programs – for starting conversations, building resilience and developing problem-solving skills – and provides a fabulous creative outlet for teens. The resurgence in Lego popularity and competitive Lego building – fuelled by TV shows such as Lego Masters – inspired Martin to establish a Lego Club at Southern River College.

We donated a larage amount of Lego to the Lego Club last year. We were pleased to present Martin some more Lego during his visit.