09 May 2025
Last school holidays, 10 dedicated students from St Peter’s College, ranging from Years 8 to Year 11, generously gave up their time to support South Australians in need through AnglicareSA’s Emergency Assistance and Thread Together programs.
Throughout the break, these students worked tirelessly, helping to stocktake food items, stack shelves, and prepare essential cleaning packs. Their efforts didn’t stop there! Some also helped sort brand new formal wear, which will go directly to support vulnerable youth in our community.
This clothing will be distributed through Thread Together, offering at-risk young people a dignified shopping experience and the opportunity to feel confident and proud at their next special event.
The kindness, generosity and initiative shown by the SPSC students is truly inspiring. Their willingness to contribute their time and energy plays a vital role in the work we do.
A heartfelt thank you goes out to the teachers who help coordinate these experiences, the parents who support and encourage participation, and most of all, to the students for their meaningful commitment to making a difference.
Tammy Rees
Community Engagement Manager, AnglicareSA
Harvey Kupniewski (Year 10) shares an insight into his experience at AnglicareSA:
1. What did you do?
I helped do jobs that would not require high levels of skill but would take the staff and regular volunteers hours to complete to the magnitude of these jobs.
2. What did you find challenging?
The work became tedious at times as we would often need to do the same job for hours on end and despite how much we did, we would step back and look at what was left and realise how small of a dent we had made.
3. What did you enjoy / find rewarding?
When we reflected on all our work at the very end, despite the small dent we had made, I still felt proud at the work that we had accomplished in the short time frame. I also enjoyed talking to kids of different Houses and Year Levels who I’d never met before and wouldn’t normally interact with, had I not signed up.
4. What have you learnt?
I have learnt lots of valuable skills and learnt a large amount about the community that helps those who are experiencing disadvantage in their life every day. I learnt about the altruism that the employees there show towards their community and their patience and empathy with those who have very little.
But above all the most important thing that I learnt was gratitude. Whilst I was shown even more how lucky I am with the school that I attend, the house that I live in and the people I have in my life, I also learnt that I should be grateful for things that I feel are negative in my life.
Feeling stress about schoolwork and the future is a privilege because I am lucky to be able to worry about things other than my rent and where my next meal will be coming from. It might sound strange, but I should feel grateful to be worrying about my future, I have the freedom to shape it, rather than have it limited from the outset by financial issues.
