Getting Out in the Community

BY GAVAN CONWAY ? During the recent visit by Kaipo Ho and Marsha Kapu, the Australian Corporate Office staff decided to undertake some community work for a day.?The office was divided into two groups each having the task of finding a community organisation where they could volunteer for a day.

Marsha joined the first group who spent the day with Friends of Federation Walk, a Gold Coast City initiative for the regeneration of the vegetation on The Spit, which is a beach and dune area near Surfers Paradise. Their objective is to maintain Federation Walk Coastal Reserve as a natural Public Open Space for the benefit of the community. It is a restoration and low impact conservation project that the community can be actively involved in. Their duties included planting over 50 new trees and cleaning up pathways along the foreshore.

The second group, which included Kaipo, went to the Animal Welfare League (AWL) where they helped to clean out pens and walk dogs. Of course, there were one or two puppies and kittens to play with! The AWL has a policy of not euthanizing stray animals and attempts to find new homes for all animals in their care. On the day we visited the shelter, it was temporary home to dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens and an uninvited green tree snake (frightening but non-venomous).

The Foreshore Care Group - Stephen Rowe, Frances Hale, Bronwyn Marshall, Sophie Secombe, Shelley Flynn, Marsha Kapu, Nicky Chapman and Holly Norball

Cleaning up the foreshore pathways ? Frances Hale, Marsha Kapu and Sophie Secombe

Grant James, Sharon Godfrey, Gavan Conway, Amanda Gaudion, Kaipo Ho, Lisa Tzanetopoulos, Tracey Dumble and Woody, a very strong, two-year old labrador

Gavan Conway with a Greyhound named Hugo, a special ambassador for the shelter who often visits schools, aged care facilities and hospitals

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