FOUNDED in 1994, the Mornington VIEW Club has spent 32 years raising money for disadvantaged students locally through The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. The club – whose name stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women – now sponsors 10 students, covering costs such as school uniforms, excursions and laptops, along with a birthday card and $75 voucher for each student at their birthday and again at Christmas. “All Learning for Life students come from a family living within one of the 94 communities across Australia in which The Smith Family works,” said Mornington VIEW Club Vice President,…
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MORNINGTON VIEW Club members are calling on the community to dig deep and support Anti-Poverty Week (12-18 October) and help end child poverty across Australia through education and local action. The club hoped this year more people can sponsor a child or donate to the national children’s education charity The Smith Family.Mornington VIEW Club president Diane Latessa said with one in six children in Australia growing up in poverty, there had never been a more important time to support a child with their education. “Families are having to make impossible choices about how to spend limited resources, this could be…