吃瓜不打烊

20 June 2024

吃瓜不打烊 Archdiocese Catholic Schools (吃瓜不打烊) and the Rerum Novarum Foundation have celebrated the winners of last year’s Rerum Novarum Awards.

With the winners announced at the end of 2023, the awards were presented at an event at the Catholic Leadership Centre last week. Congratulations to the following award-winners:

• Gold: Parade College, Bundoora.
  Through the Eddie’s Backpacks program, students donated bags to children in foster care transitioning to a new home environment.
• Silver (joint winners): , Herne Hill, and , Eltham.
  Students at Clonard College organised a ‘Justice Meal Day’, where most students randomly received inadequate food to raise awareness of this daily reality for many in our world.
  Catholic Ladies College students sought to create a pollinator garden, featuring local indigenous plants to attract pollinators, to connect their environment with our Catholic tradition and the spirituality of our First Nations people.
• Encouragement award: Salesian College, Sunbury.

Aligned with Australian Catholic Bishops Conference social justice statements and encyclicals of the Catholic Church, the Rerum Novarum Awards ask students in Years 9 to 12 to address a social justice issue in their community. Using the ‘See, Judge, Act’ method, students apply the principles of Catholic social teaching to their project. Entries include a research paper, project impact report and video presentation. Seed grants of $1000 are available to schools to develop their projects, with further grants awarded to the winning entries.

Schools are now preparing their entries for the 2024 .