2016 School Magazine

THE ECUMENICAL COFFEE BRIGADE

INTERACT Interact is a service club aiming to have an impact on the surrounding community and support the ones that need it the most. The focus of the club this year was to raise funds and awareness for an international charity. The Interact club members decided to support Interplast, an organisation which provides life-changing plastic and reconstructive medical treatment and training in the Asia-Pacific region. The year kicked off with a very successful bake stall filled with delicious baked goods made by the girls. Being our first service event of the year we were thrilled by the support we received from fellow Grammar girls and we were grateful for being given the opportunity to contribute to the community in such as positive manner. Later in the year at the Interact service stall on Open Day we raised money and awareness through a Polaroid booth. The Polaroid booth was a huge success and attracted the generous donations and support of current The Ecumenical Coffee Brigade (ECB) is a program that was established in 1970 to provide homeless and marginalised people within the Brisbane CBD with food and hot drinks each morning. It is a voluntary organisation which seeks to offer these services with respect and acceptance by treating all with dignity. They continuously look for new ways of ensuring that the needs of the people we serve are respected and responded to whenever possible. Multiple times each term, students from Brisbane Girls Grammar School come together and spend their morning making sandwiches for the homeless. By gathering before school these students help to make a difference in the lives of the homeless in the inner-city area. Each year BGGS also conducts a Donation Drive to collect food donations for ECB. We received tremendous support this year and these donations have been distributed in and around the Spring Hill area. These students are directly making a difference to their local community and are having a great time doing so. Due to the immense interest shown this year some volunteers have had to be put on a waiting list which epitomises the willingness of Girls Grammar students to lend a helping hand. This group helps the students get deeply involved in their local community while having a lot of fun themselves. BREANNAH COCHRANE (12L)

Grammar girls, parents and Grammar- girls-to-be. We were extremely proud of the efforts of our collective team. We are proud of the efforts of the girls who contributed to Interact this year.

SENJUTI MAITRA (12M) & RYLIE COOKE (12W)

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