By Alesha Capone
Students from Point Cook Senior Secondary College are cooking up a charity project.
The school’s Year 12 VCAL Personal Development Skills students are creating a website with breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes for other students, their families and college staff.
VCAL teacher Callan McDonald said the students were also running a fundraising campaign for Autism Spectrum Australia.
The school community will be asked to donate to the campaign, in return for access to the online cookbook.
Mr McDonald said that while the online cookbook would not be accessible to the wider community, the students were hoping Wyndham residents would also contribute donations.
He said that before commencing on the cookbook project, the students nominated groups they wanted to raise money for, and then voted for one to fundraise for.
A student named Bailey nominated Autism Spectrum Australia for the project.
Mr McDonald said the VCAL students had contributed around 60 recipes, including some from different cultural backgrounds, to the online cookbook.
“I think the fact that everyone is contributing their own pages and working within a team to do their own unique contribution is something which the students are really enjoying,” he said.
Mr McDonald said the VCAL project has already raised more than $400 for Autism Spectrum Australia, prompting the students to change their original fundraising goal from $500 to $750.
Mr McDonald said the students were aiming to finalise their total fundraising sum after the upcoming school holidays.
“The kids will be home with their families, we want to get them in the kitchen cooking,” he said.
See initforautism.org.au/fundraisers/baileydeal/pds-year-12-food-fundraiser to make a donation.
