Monash students complete 1 281 community hours
A new campus-wide project means that a lot is being done in communities such as Cosmo City, Muldersdrift and Kromdraai.
Here For Good is a project by which students from Monash South Africa (MSA) faculties spend hours doing community work as volunteers in Cosmo City, Muldersdrift and Kromdraai. To date, the students have logged 1 281 community-service hours since the inception of the programme in February this year. Students from the many schools or faculties at MSA in Peter Road, Ruimsig, have been competing to outdo one another in community volunteer work, explained Fiki Masilela from Text100 on behalf of Monash South Africa on Monday 17 March.
“These faculties have been competing to see who can spend the most hours doing good in their community,” explained Craig Rowe, head of Community Engagement at the MSA campus.
“During this time a total of 1 281 volunteer hours have been completed,” said Rowe.
“The winning school was the School of Business and Economics, with a recorded total of 492 hours during February/ March.”
The students performed duties including digging trenches to divert water away from rural school facilities and helping to distribute new school uniforms to each child in a certain school. They also initiated a project to audit text books at another school and held a massive clean-up event.
To read more about the do-gooders at Monash South Africa, be sure to pick up the next print edition of the Record.
