By Jessica Anstice
It all began in 2017, in a Hampton Park Secondary College Year 8 Health and Alive class, where students found out they had the chance to create something that could be donated to the wider community to help those in need.
At first, they students had no idea what to make for their project, but they knew they wanted to make something that would give other children joy.
“We thought about our own childhood and what made us happy, so we decided to make a colouring book and activity book,” student Hristina Travica said.
“With that in mind we brainstormed what we wanted to base the books on. We ultimately came to the decision of basing the books on the alphabet.
“This meant that every child would be included as well as having something to help them learn or further their knowledge.”
The class worked together to design and create the books.
Tigerprint published 200 copies of each book.
“We are thankful for Tigerprint for making our colouring and activity books a reality, as well as our teacher Ms Naomi Dawson for being there for us every step of the way,” student Taylor Stevens said.
“From start to finish this whole project took us one year and on Wednesday 5 December we finally went to the Royal Children’s Hospital alongside Ms Dawson and George, where we donated the 400 books.”
This Christmas at the Royal Children’s hospital, the books will be wrapped up and gifted to the children who are currently staying there, either awaiting surgery or recovering.
The money to be able to produce the books was from a government initiative that puts money into Health and Alive projects to give back to the community along with a donation to raise the amount purchased from the school.
The school adhered to the strict guidelines of the hospitals donation policy.
