We are Crowd Funding!

We have launched our crowd funding project today with the helpful people from Pozible!

We need your support to share the message and make a donation! Even $1- will make a difference. There are over 70, 000 people in Latrobe Valley and if every person donated $1 we would have double what we need.

This space will allow the Neighbourhood House to do more to support the people of the Valley to learn, be together and be more resilient.

We are planning to put a Community Garden on the tennis courts. There is plenty of space for it. The LV Community Shed activities can start there, there is space for us to store and use tools and we envisage many hands on learning projects. The Digital Shed can move it's activities there and there will be plenty of room to expand our digital projects.

Have a look at the clip the students made in just a couple of days. Press play on the top photo of the project. We hope to support local small businesses and entrepreneurs to get an online presence. There are great opportunities online for learning and participating.

Ask questions - We'll write a FAQ about our project on Friday. Send questions to joh@digitalshed.com.au or leave a comment.



Take a look at these stats - Latrobe Valley - Highlights (http://profile.id.com.au/latrobe/highlights). We have 8% unemployment when the national average is 6% and Victorian 5%. We need to do something different and become more enterprising and innovative. This is a great place to live so lets rethink how we live and work here and help create a resource to support our resilience.

Hands On Learning Update

The students from Traralgon Secondary College's Hands On Learning group have continued to improve our garden. Here are the latest photos from the past few weeks:

We put up a gate:

 

and made a mural

 

 

Now the rain is watering the garden. There is more work to be done, but it is wonderful to see the weekly improvement of our outdoor area and the students enthusiasm for helping is great to see.

 

Winners

We are happy to announce that TNLH is a Finalist in the Latrobe City Telstra People's Choice Awards in 2 categories for showing 'Excellence in Customer Service' and 'Good Access is Good Business'. Thank you to everyone who has voted for us.

We drew the Mothers Day Raffle last week at the Digital Shed on Friday.Lavalla students Steph and Mikayla drew the winning tickets. Shelley Matthews won first place and Archie Van Berkel won the 2nd prize.

Speaking of Archie, the students from Traralgon College learnt a lot last time they visited on the 9th May. Many of our house users donated plants and cuttings. Bunnings have also helped with the project donating paint.

This week students had to do NAPLAN tests so the garden has been treated to rain and sunshine.

Hands On Learning, Week 2 :D

 Ready to work...

 Hands up to help!

 Getting down the cobwebs 
Recycled packing crates

 The girls can paint.

They all took their shoes off to have lunch in the kitchen.... after a day of hard work!

A big thanks to Bunnings for the generous donation of paint and plants to get the Herb Garden up and running, the students are very excited :)

Traralgon College Students Help Out

The Outdoor area was a bit of a mess.....


 

Before



Listening to Challenge

The 'Hands on Learning' students from Traralgon College were keen to help out..................





They rolled up their sleeves and got straight to work....


Almost there...

Look at the results of one days effort......


After

After



 

 

 

 

 

They have made our part of the world a better place.

 

YOU can help out by donating some seeds or paint to this project. We have workers and we want a herb and vege garden to use in our cooking classes. The students have some great artwork planned for the walls..... just wait and see.

 

Please see Jenny, Julie, Linda or Joh at the House

or

Pete and Sandy at Traralgon College 'Hands on Learning' if you would like to make a contribution.

 

or comment here:-) about how we can contact you.