Student Achievement
Quilting for a cause
19 May
As part of CPDA week, Year 10 students are using their craft skills in quilting for a worthy cause.
During the bushfires last year, Quilts for Australia put the call out for Australian quilters to make 'tree blocks' to form quilts, to then send to those who lost houses in the 2019/2020 bushfires.
There was an overwhelming response from around the world with over 15,000 tree blocks, enough to make 850 quilts! 350 of those quilts were made with the assistance of volunteer quilting communities and they now need to make the remaining 500 quilts.
Our Damascus students are responding to this need, and are enjoying learning the skill of quilting, whilst contributing to the goal of 500.
Well done to Damascus teacher Patricia Brown for leading this project, and to the students involved in this unique opportunity to give back to those experiencing hardship.
