“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one” - St Teresa of Calcutta.

Last Friday, Wilson and I, along with our other Year 10 peers were given a fantastic opportunity to help with the new initiative titled, ‘The Well’. Its name is derived from the passage (John 4)  in which Jesus talks to a Samaritan woman by a well, asking her for a drink of water. The reasoning behind this initiative was so we could help support the youth within the Reiby Juvenile Detention Centre through fundraising enough money to help them walk out of there with a backpack on their back, instead of a rubbish bag to hold their belongings.

As Jesus did within the passage, we associated with a marginalised group of people, breaking down social barriers and instead helped them. In order to fundraise the money, we sold juice from ‘The Well’. The Juvie Juice fundraiser was a hit as people ‘poured’ in to buy the mystery juice that was selling for the low price of $2. The juice sold out by the end of lunch therefore not only displaying that the advertisements worked, but also showing the great support that the Mount Carmel community offers to people in need, following the Carmelite pillars that our school is built around. It really inspired us and our peers to help the helpless without selfish thought of a reward and instead continue this practice for the benefit of others, not ourselves.

In conclusion, 'The Well' was a great initiative to volunteer for because it brought together the community of Mount Carmel to help another marginalised group of people out of a difficult situation as firm believers of the Catholic faith.

Craig Llorando  & Wilson Asuit