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Lunch Day
Victoria University celebrates our frontline workers through its 'Thank You' initiative.
VU Polytechnic commercial cookery students prepared over 400 free meals for staff at vaccination hubs across Melbourne's west.
Dianne Semmens
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Vocational Education
Victoria University
I guess today is about trying to acknowledge that we say thank you to our Western Health partners for what they've been doing and also to let them know that Victoria University supports them all the way.
Ben Coulson
SIT40516 Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery Student
Victoria University Polytechnic
My fellow students and I have been busy preparing lunches. They include veggie and chicken wraps, brownies, mandarins and salads. Everything has been packaged in a COVID safe way, practicing the skills we've learned this year.
Sanny Liu
SIT40516 Certificate IV in Commerical Cookery Student
Victoria University Polytechnic
I just really want to say thank you. Plus it's a really good opportunity for me to practice my skills from what I have learned from remote online studies.
Donald Johnson
VU alumni (Bachelor of Nursing)
Nurse Unit Manager
Sunshine Vaccination Hub
Our teams here have been doing long hours, plenty of overtime and often found their diet has been consisting of sneaky takeaway on the way home. So having some really nice fresh food not only reminds people that people at VU are thinking of us, but also fuels our team for the rest of the day.
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The VU Thank You initiative also supplied free coffee for workers and provided access to university health & wellbeing programs.
VU students have been employed as frontline workers throughout the pandemic.
Dianne Semmens
So we have fifty VU paramedic students and many, many nurses who have been employed as vaccinators and we've got students from the Polytechnic and Higher Education health disciplines who've undertaken some of those critical frontline roles that you would have seen.
Alyssa Andrea
Bachelor of Nursing student
Vaccine worker
My name is Alyssa and I'm a student nurse. I'm currently studying at Victoria University. I am pleased to be part of an amazing team who administered over 1 million vaccinations through Western Health.
Dianne Semmens
Our evolving partnership with Western Health it's aimed at optimising our deep joint experience in health, research and education to benefit communities in the West of Melbourne. So we're taking some of that expertise and partnership and trying to apply it now to help our communities during COVID 19.
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Working together to benefit the community
Dianne Semmens
From all of us here at Victoria University, thank you for your commitment and efforts during COVID 19.
Sanny Liu
Thank you.
Ben Coulson
Thank you.
Donald Johnson
From all of us here at Western Health I'd like to say thank you to everyone at Victoria University.
Alyssa Andre
Thanks VU!
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Logos from left to right: Victoria University Polytechnic, Western Health, BioPak, VU Sport, Bidfood