Breakfast program keeps kids’ tanks full for learning

A GROUP of students at Clifton Springs Primary School launched a breakfast program last week to make sure their fellow peers’ tanks were full for learning.

Jai, Jet, Xavier and Oscar, who are members of The Salvation Army’s Making a Difference (MAD) Project, are trialling the breakfast program which attracted 30 children on its first morning.

“We went around to the students and asked them if they’d had enough breakfast in the morning and we wanted to make a difference,” Jet said.

“Every Wednesday we come out here and set up a table and we make toast for everyone who wants it and we have butter, jam, vegemite and honey.

“We make toast for everyone who hasn’t had enough breakfast.”

Oscar said it was a work in progress, and depending on how the breakfast program was received, they could potentially add some more mornings and a bigger menu.

“It’s more about the kids who wake up late and then rush to school,” Oscar said.

“It’s about making sure they have enough breakfast rather than kids not having any breakfast at all.”

All the boys said that running such a program for their peers made them feel “happy and good”.

The MAD Project is up and running on the Bellarine with local primary and secondary schools.

The aim of the project is to take a small group of people from schools and teach them life skills while they learn how to change the world.