2 August 2016,<\/p>\n
Our friends at the Exodus Foundation operate a nightly food van in the Woolloomooloo district which caters for Sydney\u2019s homeless community. They also have another food van that periodically accompanies the main meal van \u2013 a \u201cDessert Night Van\u201d.<\/p>\n
On Friday nights this term, boys from each House will be sending out four Year 11 boys accompanied by their parents, to serve desserts to Exodus\u2019 homeless clients from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM.<\/p>\n
Supporting this initiative is a team of Newington staff members who have volunteered to drive the Exodus Dessert Van from Ashfield to meet the boys and their parents at Woolloomooloo.<\/p>\n
Boys from Fletcher House were the first group sent out to experience \u2018life at the coalface\u2019 of Sydney\u2019s homeless community, and although the experience was challenging and even a bit confronting at times, our boys thoroughly embraced the opportunity and learnt a great deal from the experience. It is hoped that this roster will become a regular feature of the Service Learning program in coming years.<\/p>\n
Below are some reflection statements from some of the boys who participated. The responses are honest, humbling, and shed light on the invaluable experience of giving to others which teaches us so much about people and society.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the short hours I was working on the van, I realised the stereotypes I had about homeless people were flipped. I saw some giving food to those too cold to get it themselves, I saw people with warmth in their smiles despite their position and that\u2019s when I realised these were just people who did not have the opportunities we are lucky enough to have.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Ali Hamdan (11\/FL)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI found that these people in need were so kind and appreciative of what we where doing for them and that we sometimes take things for granted and do not appreciate the little things that people do for us. This opportunity has shown me that the people that have less, give more than the people that have more and they care more about the things they have. \u201d \u2013\u00a0Daniel Pascale (11\/FL)<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Mick Madden<\/strong> 2 August 2016, Our friends at the Exodus Foundation operate a nightly food van in the Woolloomooloo district which caters for Sydney\u2019s homeless community. They also have another food van that periodically accompanies the main meal van \u2013 a \u201cDessert … read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Head of Service Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"