St Clare’s College students have won an ACT Government Health Promotion Innovation Grant and will soon launch a project to encourage healthy food choices at the school.

The girls will work with a local dietitian and College food providers, and establishment a kitchen garden program.  

It was an initiative of the St Clare’s College Student Representative Council which submitted successful ideas on how they could use the Grant to create a healthier community.  They were among seven other successful local organisations.

Meegan Fitzharris, Minister for Health and Wellbeing, congratulated the College and said “the projects that will be funded will help give the ACT the edge it needs to improve our standards of living and encourage more healthy lifestyles. When 80 per cent of the burden of disease and injury in the ACT is caused by chronic conditions, we need to tap into the intellect, ideas and creativity of our people and organisations to develop programs that will change habits and encourage change as early as possible.”

Stay tuned to St Clare’s social media to see the project develop.