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FOLLOWING THE terrible events which have occurred in Japan, students at Moreton Bay College have shown the children of Japan that they are in our thoughts and hearts.
Over the last two weeks, students across the College have hand made over 1000 origami hearts. On the inside of each, they have written a short message of hope and cheer.
Responding to the succession of natural disasters this year has been an unexpected element of this first term of the school year for the students.
The hearts were placed in glass bowls and blessed at a MBC chapel service dedicated to victims of the earthquake.
They will now be sent to the United Church of Christ in Japan, one of the Uniting Church partner churches in the earthquake affected area which has facilities that survived the devastation and which sit amid affected communities. These facilities will be centres of care, providing clean water, distributing necessities and offering shelter and support.
The gesture is a small and simple one, but a very human one, which seeks to build a person-to person connection of compassion and care.
Photo : (from left to right) Emily Johnson, Emma Cafferky and Samantha Kacin
