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N ews a nd Events

Thenu Herath’s

inspiring fundraising

for World Vision

Early last year, I was granted the
opportunity to travel to India with World
Vision after being selected as one of
their Youth Ambassadors for 2016. On
this life-changing immersion trip, we
visited and met some of the poorest
communities in rural towns, city slums
and mountainous villages in the north of
the country, in order to see the impact
of the development programs run by the
organisation.

After returning home with a plethora to clean water and food for 40 hours many others like them around the
of stories and experiences, I travelled in order to understand the everyday world.
around Australia – visiting schools, talking reality for people living in impoverished
to media outlets and advocating for the communities. Walking from JCH to the I would like to extend a massive thank
people I met who, despite their difficult Yarra River and back, I collected enough you to everyone in the JCH community
situation, have so much hope for a drinking water to last me during my fast. for their support and unparalleled
brighter future. It was a very difficult and eye-opening generosity. Together we can, and have,
experience but all worth it: our Youth made a positive difference to the lives
The main fundraising event for the year Ambassador team managed to collect of many.
was the annual 40-Hour Famine. For over $10,000 in funds which will go
this event, I chose to give up easy access directly to assist the people I met and Thenu Herath (2016)

Andrea Goldsmith explores
music and imagination:

our 2016 Literature Dinner

College Fellow Dr Helen Garner and Ms Andrea Goldsmith at the Literature Dinner
Andrea Goldsmith, author of The Ms Goldsmith’s stimulating talk centred their days are filled with other activities
Memory Trap (2013) was the guest on imagination. She encouraged us and plenty of reading, though rarely for
speaker for the 2016 Literature Dinner. to daydream and to take the time to leisure.
Music was a key theme running foster creativity. And in doing so, to
through the novel, providing particular remove the glue that adheres us to The Memory Trap is set in Melbourne,
enjoyment, not only for those studying technology. She spoke of the importance which added to its appeal. It provided
the discipline, but also for those who of ‘doing nothing’, and of switching off an opportunity to escape ‘the College
engage with it for more leisurely from our busy lives. This point was well bubble’ without straying too far from our
purposes. made – for the very act of ‘just reading comfort zone!
a book ‘is difficult for some students, as

Eastern boundary ‘tidy up’ gives us a push
The College has a new, purpose-built bicycle shed as part of a major
redevelopment of the eastern (Trinity College) boundary fuelled by the creation
of Henderson House and re-surfacing of the tennis court. Facilities Manager
Mr Bruce Stewart oversaw the redevelopment, which includes much-needed
storage space – including for the stage erected annually for the College play.

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