By Victoria Stone-Meadows
Cranbourne Park shopping centre has teamed up with Cranbourne-based education charity the Aiding Casey Education (ACE) Foundation to supply meal replacement shakes to hungry secondary school students.
The ACE Foundation is a not for profit organisation that exists solely on donations that provides assistance to students across the City of Casey.
They currently provide 2500 meal replacement drinks every month to 12 Secondary Schools in the region and Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre are helping them achieve this goal.
Retail Manager at Cranbourne Park Zoe Picone said the shopping centre was proud to partner with the ACE Foundation to help hungry students achieve their best in school.
“We not only wanted to support their programs but also raise awareness about the foundation and the community programs they are involved in providing our youth opportunities to grow, develop and learn,” she said.
“We love everything ACE stands for and have a huge respect for Leon Shapero and Teresa Muratore who work tirelessly to support our community.”
Ms Picone said the team at Cranbourne Park were so impressed with the work ACE Foundation did that they decided to pitch in a help out as well.
“Teachers give out the meal replacements to students who arrive at school without breakfast or a prepared lunch,” Ms Picone said.
“The positive results of this program blew us away so much so that we have developed a community campaign ‘Feed Hungry Minds’ to help support the ACE Foundation and our youth.”
“We know how passionate our customers are about their community and feel together we can make a positive difference.”
Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre are matching all donations made of the Up and Go shakes to the donation bin outside Woolworths inside the centre.
To find out more about the ACE Foundation or the ‘Feed Hungry Minds’ campaign follow the Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CranbournePark.
