A group of 23 Year 10 students at St Teresa’s Catholic College chose to participated in the CEO Challenge – Darkness to Daylight (D2D) event last month and learnt a lot about domestic violence along the way. This event is aimed at raising awareness of and funds to stamp out Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) in Australia. The main event is an overnight run/walk, usually held in Brisbane, however due to COVID it was not able to be run this year.
Not wanting to miss an opportunity, the College worked with Noosa Council to create an alternate event locally that still gave the experience of the overnight run. The event was held along the Noosa River on Wednesday 26 May, the culmination of a 10-week program, that included education about DFV, physical training, and completing more than 450 random acts of kindness.
Each student ran on behalf of a DFV survivor, a person whose story they have read and who kept them inspired throughout the night. Students were lucky enough to have the founder of Darkness 2 Daylight, Robert Reed join them for the pre-run vigil and run with them for a period of time. On the same night, it was poignant that the lunar eclipse occurred in the sky above as students were trying to eclipse Domestic and Family Violence in Australia. We are incredibly proud of this group of students who collectively ran over 1300kms, made a difference in the community with their random acts of kindness and raised in excess of $7500 towards the cause.
