Staff and students at Dubbo South Public School have raise more than $800 for Rural Aid’s Buy A Bale campaign.
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On Tuesday the whole school, which includes 700 students, held an out of school uniform day with a gold coin donation going towards helping drought stricken farmers.
With school uniforms gone for the day, flannies, jeans and boots became popular outfit choices.
Students Morgan Ridley and Samuel Hazlett wrote very inspiring words on the drought and just how it is affecting farmers today.
Samuel’s father is great friends with a farmer from north-west, NSW.
Samuel, who has visited the property with his father, said the farmer was doing it tough and there was no feed for the sheep.
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The Year 5 and 6 students in Miss Bladt-Woicek’s class wrote about why it was important to help farmers.
“Without farmers we have no food so it’s all on us to help the farmers,” Samuel said.
“If we don’t support them cattle and sheep will keep dying and farmers will have to kill their animals. People have to be aware of other people.”
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Morgan said many people think drought just affects farmers, but it actually affects everyone.
“Farmers have farms to produce food for all of us. Also if there’s hardly any food the prices go up and it will be harder to buy food, so it does affects us and our health and communities,” she said.
“So we should keep supporting farmers through their huge journey so they can live a happy life.”