CHRISTMAS and New Year was a little happier for some of Brisbane’s homeless youth this year thanks to the efforts of students from Our Lady of the Assumption School, Enoggera.
Under strict safety supervision the school community gathered on the school oval to cheer their favourite rockets to victory and a date with destiny – the school’s inaugural Rockets for Rosies winner.
The school’s Year 7 students designed and painted the rockets to raise money for Rosies: Friends on the Streets.
Using a fishing line, some paper clips and pressured gas, the rockets flew across the school’s oval, some at more than 120klm per hour.
Year 7 students Josh Parfitt and Callum Ryan said it was “awesome” designing and then making the rockets.
“We also had to get sponsorship from friends or family who then had their logo printed onto our rockets.
They said they wanted to raise lots of money for Rosies after learning the group needed money desperately so their volunteers can help people living on the streets.
The school raised more than $900 which Rockets for Rosies organiser Dan Guppy presented to Rosies spiritual director Oblate Father Pat Dwyer.
Fr O’Dwyer congratulated the students on their inventiveness and thanked them on behalf of the people who would benefit from their generous donation.
