ABC, By: Lucy Barbour, 12/17/2013
An early childhood school in Canberra is giving drought-affected farmers a big Christmas present this year. It raised more than $500 to buy hay bales for graziers in far west New South Wales and in Queensland. About 350 children from the Southern Cross Early Childhood School have dressed up as farmers for the day and brought along a gold coin donation as part of the 'buy a bale' initiative.
The school's principal, Jennie Bailey, says the idea came about after a colleague showed her photographs of bare paddocks in Roma, in Queensland. "They were just absolutely barren, with no feed for the cattle or the horses," she said. "And then we saw this 'buy a bale' day come up and we thought, 'What a fantastic way to support our Aussie, Australian fellows'." Ms Bailey says the response from the school community has been "overwhelming".
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