Residents of Cleveland Manor Retirement Village have been putting their spending money to good use, helping out one of the state’s remote schools.
Residents donated Woolworths ‘Earn and Learn’ stickers collected from almost $8000 worth of grocery shopping to Ubobo State School, located in the Boyne Valley south of Gladstone.
The school’s nearest Woolworths is a two-hour round trip away, so its 12 students wrote to Cleveland Manor asking for help collecting stickers to be traded for school equipment.
Village manager Wendy Rogers said Cleveland’s community-minded residents were quick to respond to help their young friends.
“It’s the second year we’ve collected for the school and we had a great response,” Wendy said.
“All the residents really got on board, and we collected and sent off more than 13 sheets of stickers, tallying up to 790 stickers in total."
Resident Barbara Woolven helped co-ordinate the collection and posting of the stickers.
“I think it’s great to do something for the kids in the country who probably don’t get much help,” she said.
More than 15,000 schools and early learning centres took part in Earn and Learn this year, and participating schools can trade their stickers for science, maths, English, sports or arts equipment.
“Because everyone jumped on board we got quite a few stickers, and we hope the students can get good use out of them,” Barbara said.