For one and a half years, students from Williams Parkway Senior Public School spent every single lunch break collecting and weaving approximately 13,000 milk bags to create 18 waterproof mattresses and pillows for women and children in developing countries and to prevent milk bags from going into landfills in order to protect the environment.
Their mentor, Michelle McNeilage, teacher at Williams Parkway, got the idea through a newspaper clipping about Milkbags Unlimited, a non-profit organization that provides milk bag mattresses, created and donated by volunteers, to women initiatives in underdeveloped countries, including Red Cross. When she shared it with students, they immediately took on the project and launched it by making a slideshow presentation to share this initiative with the entire school at their assembly.
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