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CHILDREN from St Mary's College have sent a bright message of welcome to
young asylum seekers at Pontville.
Junior
school students wore yellow the international colour for human rights. And they
are donating dictionaries and raising funds to buy dictionaries for the asylum
seekers.
Grade
6 girls had the idea to act after last week's announcement that about 200 boys
would move into group homes around Hobart.
"After
completing the migration unit of the Australian curriculum, the students felt
compelled to do something real to support migrants to Tasmania," year 6
teacher Nicole Wakefield said.
"The
concept of Wear Yellow Day was created to do something of value rather than
just talk about the issue," Mrs Wakefield said.
She
and teacher Travis Little helped the students to organise the event.
Students
displayed signs reading welcome in different languages.
They
also filmed the event to be included in a video on the topic.
Some
senior students at St Mary's have visited Pontville with the Taiko Drummers as
part of the Young Vinnies group.
Asylum-seeker
supporters hope the boys, aged 11 to 18, would be able to be released within
weeks.
More
than 70 would remain in detention at Pontville and hundreds of others at
centres around Australia.
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