Learners LEAP to serve less fortunate
Hillcrest Primary School's LEAP class goes the extra mile.
ETHAN Cooke, a learner in the Grade 5 LEAP class at Hillcrest Primary School (Learner Extension and Acceleration Programme) initiated a winter warmth drive for the impoverished 1000 Hills community.
He, together with his classmates started a blanket and winter woollies drive at Hillcrest Primary School and extended it into the wider Hillcrest community.
Two bakkie loads of donations were recently delivered to the 1000 Hills Community Helpers Centre in Inchanga by the Grade 5 LEAP pupils.
“There was an immense sense of sharing and love felt by all on the day, as we were warmly welcomed by Dawn Leppan, the community members and the happy children who attend the school and crèche on the property,” said their teacher, Sharon Forsyth.
The learners also assisted a group of volunteers to package mielie meal, rice, beans, sugar, tea and salt into food packages which are delivered and distributed to the indigent and elderly folk living in Embo and the Valley of 1000 Hills community by the St Vincent De Paul’s Society which is run from St Dominic’s Catholic church in central Hillcrest.
