Seeds of Compassion – A Joint Project Between the City of Ballarat and Compassionate Ballarat

With many recent traumas in Ballarat, the City of Ballarat approached Compassionate Ballarat about a healing project that might bring the city together. In response CB suggested a project which involved planting seeds of compassion to promote Ballarat as a caring city through the compassionate wishes of its future leaders. CB members Dr Lynne Reeder and Mary Darcy developed a teacher’s guide to assist schools in gathering those wishes from Year 6 and Year 10 students.

On Friday 26 July this project was launched by Mayor Des Hudson who invited the students to hand their written wishes to him, and to other adults present as a ‘call to action’ for the students’ wishes for our city to come true. The outcome of this project will be a book that will comprise all the wishes from participating students and be will be distributed to other compassionate cities

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This story has also been covered in the Ballarat Times
https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/ballarat/news/a-compassionatecall-to-action/