St Bede’s College held its second Little Long Walk recently, in partnership with the Long Walk Foundation and proudly sponsored by Happsa Group.
More than 350 Year 10 students participated in the walk, which ran from the Mentone Campus along the beach to the Derrimut Weelam Gathering Place in Mordialloc.
As part of the walk, the students carried what they made earlier using ochre, wattle sap, river rocks and gum nuts as part of an Aboriginal Art Workshop. They walked from the school grounds along the beach to Mordialloc, where they were be greeted by Kingston Council officers who explained the significance of the gathering place. At the conclusion of the walk, the students were treated to entertainment by the Indigenous Hip Hop Troupe.
Happsa Group Managing Director Harry Georgiou said that Happsa was proud to partner again with St Bedes College and The Long Walk Foundation.
“We believe that education plays a crucial part in the Reconciliation process.”
“We have been a sponsor and collaborator with the Long Walk Foundation for many years now and to work with St Bedes College and our local community on this initiative is something that we are so proud of,” Harry said.
The Little Long Walk concept gives secondary school students an opportunity to learn about Michael Long and his historic walk to Canberra in 2004 to ask the Prime Minister to put the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people back on the national agenda.
The Long Walk Trust is a charity inspired by AFL champion Michael Long which aims to develop and empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and educate the broader Australian community about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures.
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