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Giving can be sew easy

byStaff writers
2 September 2012 - Updated on 16 March 2021
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Giving time and talent: (From left) Acting principal at St Mary's College, Maryborough, Dan Lourigan; Prue Beauchamp; Lorraine Hogan, of Boltons; Alex Kunst; Jack Hansen; Mason Atkinson; Danny Moller; Lillian Strack; acting deputy principal Bradley Banney; and Pat Burkett all helped with the latest Sew PNG project

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Giving time and talent: (From left) Acting principal at St Mary's College, Maryborough, Dan Lourigan; Prue Beauchamp; Lorraine Hogan, of Boltons; Alex Kunst; Jack Hansen; Mason Atkinson; Danny Moller; Lillian Strack; acting deputy principal Bradley Banney; and Pat Burkett all helped with the latest Sew PNG project
Giving time and talent: (From left) Acting principal at St Mary’s College, Maryborough, Dan Lourigan; Prue Beauchamp; Lorraine Hogan, of Boltons; Alex Kunst; Jack Hansen; Mason Atkinson; Danny Moller; Lillian Strack; acting deputy principal Bradley Banney; and Pat Burkett all helped with the latest Sew PNG project

YOUTH in Maryborough have given time and talent to people whom they may never meet.

Students from St Mary’s College, Maryborough, have joined the “Sew PNG” project overseen by locals Frank and Pat Burkett.

So far, students have made 220 shoulder bags and pencil cases for Baga Elementary School and Tufi Primary School in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea.

“(The project) has given the students a greater understanding of the poor conditions the students in this remote area face as they seek the key to a better educational future,” Frank said.

The couple said their endeavours had been “greatly assisted by the staff at Boltons in Maryborough” who have supplied curtain fabric for the bags, along with others.

Contents of the shoulder bags are exercise books, a hat, thongs or “crocs” (shoes), clothes and a secondhand school uniform.

The pencil case contains “pencils, (pens), erasers, sharpeners … as well as laminated bookmarks and cards made by the students assisted by parishioner Mariette Wilmink”.

“The completed shoulder bags were labelled individually with the student’s name and grade as gifts from Sew PNG Maryborough,” Frank said.

The shipment to PNG will also include basic medical supplies for the Tufi medical centre.

Pat said: “The students are to be congratulated for their diligence and generous spirit … (but) thanks hardly seems adequate.”

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