By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
CHILDREN at local primary schools will be crafting for a cause this Christmas when their cards are sent to families in need.
Students at the outside school hours program at St Thomas More Primary School and Upwey South Primary School will participate in the ‘Basket Brigade’ project, an initiative that provides disadvantaged families with packages at Christmas.
Extend After School Care runs the outside school hours program at the two schools and will this year be partnering with the Magic Moments foundation to involve their students in the Christmas campaign.
Darren Stevenson, managing director of Extend, said that cards made by the students would bring an extra bit of joy to families doing it tough this year.
“Children attending the two Extend After School Care services are helping to create beautiful hand-made Christmas cards to accompany some of the hundreds of baskets that will be delivered around Australia this year.”
More information including pictures and a tally of the cards made and distributed can be found on the Extend After School Care Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ExtendAfterCare.
