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MEDIA RELEASE: OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FUELLED THE SUCCESSFUL STATIONERY DRIVE

Junior Chamber International (JCI) Eastern member, Suzi Chen, was surprised by the generosity of the local community in supporting the recent stationery drive. “We were approached by a university honour society to run a stationery drive initiative to help remote Australian communities. Our chapter members have always been very much about communities, so we all agreed that this initiative was a good idea. We just did not expect the overwhelming support that we received for this event,” Ms Chen said.
   

The 2-week Stationery Drive in late August was a joint initiative by both JCI Eastern and Deakin Golden Key, an honour society based in Deakin University. The Stationery Drive urged people to donate new and pre-loved stationery, which were then donated to Children’s Charity Network to assist disadvantaged Indigenous children in remote Australian towns with their learning.  

 

Deakin Golden Key Vice President and Community Services Officer, Sarah Neil, spent hours sorting the donated items after the initiative ended and reported an astonishing number of donations received. “10,966. That's the total of major stationery items raised from the drive. If I also counted smaller items, the number of donations would be higher! I was in shock by this unprecedented success,” Miss Neil commented.

 

“We had the support from local schools, communities and businesses. They will be so thrilled to learn about the success of this stationery drive. In fact, one local schools was so keen about this initiative that they have asked if we could run it again in November,” JCI Eastern Chapter President, Ben Morris, added.

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Newsletter Update - September 2014 Edition

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Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Presentation

All good things come to an end and we finished our fabulous 6-week program on Saturday 6 September. It is with such a pride that our Art2Heart project team presented participation certificates to this year's students.

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Art2Heart 2014: Felting

Students from our Art2Heart project entered the colourful world of felting on Saturday 30 August when the brilliant textile artist, Jessie Bleakley, charmed us away with her energetic and exciting workshop.

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Art2Heart 2014: Glass Art

By popular demand, Kirsten and Garey from Spirit of Glass once again joined our Art2Heart project on Saturday 23 August to teach us the art of working with glass . To read more about JCI Eastern's Art2Heart project, click the link below.

Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Art2Heart 2014: Glass Art