Fountain College students played an out of the ordinary game of soccer last week in the name of charity.
On Friday both high school and primary school students donned blindfolds and played soccer with a special ball that emits sound.
The two games were helping raise awareness about the debilitating effects cataracts can have on someone’s life and to raise money for the Australian Relief Organisation’s cataract campaign.
The campaign calls for donations of $200 to sponsor a surgical operation on one eye of a cataract patient in some of the world’s poorest areas.
Fountain’s pastoral care coordinator Omer Demirbas said the soccer game was the perfect combination of learning and having fun, which taught students about eye issues.
“In these activities our students had a first hand experience in what not having eyesight would be like at the same time as enjoying themselves,” he said.
“I believe that they now know how fortunate they are and that is exactly the point of these activities.”
