
Students and staff from across the Cockburn Multi-academy Trust ended a successful Autumn term in December with a number of charitable enterprises.
Having seen on the news, the children living through a nightmare in Gaza and the conflict spreading to Lebanon and things getting even worse for children they decided to raise funds for the Save the Children Middle East Appeal. A year of relentless bombing and near-total siege had left Gaza’s children terrified and gripped by hunger.
Almost every child in the country did not have enough food to eat and half of the population were at crisis levels of hunger. The impact of this on the children of Gaza and Lebanon would be alarming and everyone across the Cockburn MAT wanted to make a difference.
The total raised was £947.50. According to the Save the Children charity, this would be enough to fund approximately:
- 16 emergency first-aid kits or
- 88 school-in-a-bag kits or
- 28 food baskets or
- 44 family hygiene packs.
Mili Sargeant, Save the Children Community Fundraising Manager says:
“We’re incredibly grateful to Cockburn Multi Academy Trust for organising a fundraiser in support of our Middle East Appeal. Save the Children’s work is only possible thanks to our supporters in the UK and their amazing commitment to make the world a better place for children. Together with the support of schools across the Cockburn Multi Academy Trust we can be there for many more children, for as long as they need us, so they can start to recover and see beyond tomorrow”.
For more information on Save the Children, visit www.savethechildren.org.uk
In addition to the Save the Children fundraising, the Cockburn MAT secondary schools raised funds and food bank goods in December as follows:
Cockburn School raised £729.80 for the Kyle Asquith Foundation and Year 8 and Year 10 students delivered a huge amount of food to the Leeds South & East foodbank
Students from Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy collected 80 shoe boxes for the Leeds Shoebox Appeal. (as reported in our January edition).
Cockburn John Charles Academy raised £802 for Veronica McShane Foundation.
David Gurney, Executive Headteacher, said:
“I am extremely proud of the students and staff for raising nearly £2500 – a huge sum of money. This is in addition to all of the shoe box and foodbank parcels. We aim for all of our students to become confident, independent and successful citizens and they showed great pride in supporting children in the Middle East and those in need closer to home in the run up to Christmas.”
This post is based on a press release issued by Cockburn Multi-academy Trust
Photo: Cockburn School students deliver food to the Leeds South & East Foodbank
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