School competition benefits homeless

Bundaberg Christian College primary students last week presented local charity
Global Care with approximately 1150 cans of food as part of a inter class challenge set up to
get them thinking about others.
During their school assembly, College Principal Mr Paul Sterling congratulated the students on the initiative and thanked the parents for purchasing the cans.
“I am incredibly proud of the efforts" he said, "in providing this gift to families in need and in doing so, reflecting the school values of serving others.”

Yale Morgan, Chairman of Global Care Bundaberg, (a ministry of Citicoast Church) was delighted to be able to attend the school along with two of Global Care’s volunteers to accept the donation and told the students that their work in providing these cans will go a long way towards Global Care helping families who are doing it tough.

“These cans will provide about a month’s worth of food for families that desperately need help and allows us to put food in
their bellies and at the same time share God’s love with them.”


School Chaplain, Kelli Ussher explained that the can drive is an annual activity to inspire the
students to not only have some friendly competition amongst their classes but to also give
them an opportunity to make a difference in their community.

“From the school’s perspective, this is part of our missions program. We’re teaching the junior school students that they can make a difference to others not so fortunate” she said. “Each of our classes are
challenged to collect the most cans with the promise of a pizza party for the class that collects
the most. That’s part of the fun. But then the children are also learning about serving and
helping each other and their community. We get them thinking about how fortunate we are to
have food to eat, while others may not have that luxury.”

The BCC Can drive has happened third term for the last 7 years. The cans will be put into
food hampers and distributed locally by Global Care.