Students in Years 3-6 at St. John’s Lutheran Primary School in Portland bagged sheep manure last November to raise money for the MJF. The students travelled to two local farms and crawled under the sheds, shovelled the manure into buckets and then bagged it, ready to sell to the school and Portland community for $5.00 per bag, raising a total of $2,000 for the MJF.
The bags sold in a matter of weeks and there are now many happy gardeners in Portland! St. John’s Lutheran continues their tradition of bagging manure as it links with their Christian Studies curriculum, and it is a service project that uses a local resource that is very generously donated by school families and locals in Portland.
Students learn about Melanie’s life during this experience and know that the money goes to Vanuatu to benefit people in need. For one day of getting smelly and dirty bagging manure, they can contribute and change the life of people in need in Vanuatu.
St. John’s Portland has run this fundraiser for a few years in a row now, and we are very grateful for their support.
If you have a fundraising idea you’d like to run by us, please get in touch.
