By JESSE GRAHAM
MOUNT Evelyn VCAL students are set to take on Lillydale Lake today (Tuesday) as part of a fundraising effort to get new sporting equipment.
The students from Upper Yarra Community House’s (UYCH) Morrisons Campus will be running three kilometres around the lake starting at 10am.
VCAL co-ordinator Mark Hunt said the students were trying to raise $1000 through social media and community members in order to buy new sporting equipment.
Mr Hunt said that many of the runners had become disengaged with sport earlier in their education and wanted to use the run as an opportunity to renew their interest in physical activity.
“These guys are disengaged from education – most of them stopped playing sport when they were younger,” he said.
“We’re trying to reengage them through sport at school, to get them into coaching and get them into physical activity.”
Mr Hunt said the students at the Morrisons campus used community sporting facilities because they had none on-campus but had to provide their own equipment.
The fundraiser is being organised through the Adidas School Fun Run, which enables participants to win prizes based on how much they donate.
Mr Hunt said the students had utilised social media to raise awareness about the fundraiser and had received more than $300 in donations, but that they were still well-off their $1000 goal.
Many of the VCAL students involved also coach basketball with Mount Evelyn Primary School each week and will be running soccer and football workshops at the lake when the fun run is completed.
For more information or to donate to the cause visit give.everydayhero.com/au/vcal-fun-run-2.
