Students at Arahina ki Ōtautahi have fundraised over $600 for Christchurch City Mission.

Arahina ki Otautahi was established in 2017 as a multi-agency initiative to work with children and young people, aged 10 to 16 who are in the care of Oranga Tamariki and out of school, to successfully re-engage them in education.

They began this idea as part of their classroom programme looking at raising funds for a selected charity.

The students decided that Christchurch City Mission was a worthy cause because of the range of supports they provide to people in need.

The process involved researching recipes, developing promotional flyers and going out to get orders.

Last term the students and staff set up a cheese roll making station in the hall and ‘went to work’ making over one hundred dozen cheese rolls.

“We had to wear gloves, aprons and hairnets,” said one of the students.

The students were immensely proud of their achievement and they loved the feeling of giving back to their city.

The students handed over a ‘big cheque’ to Christchurch City Mission for $660.00 today in the knowledge that the funds they had raised would go directly into helping Canterbury people in need.