News Student Leadership
21 May 2021
In honouring both National Volunteer Day (18 May) and the upcoming World Environment Day (5 June), Environmental Captain Junayd Ayoubi, SRC Coordinator Ms Noori Ahmad and Sustainability Coordinator Ms Tanja Kubitza were invited by local MP and Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Lily D'Ambrosio to attend an afternoon tea at her office last week.
The event celebrated local volunteer achievements and aspirations concerning sustainability, recycling, solar energy and environmental landscapes. Attendees shared their past, current and future projects. As part of this, College Environmental Captain Junayd (Year 12) presented the current 3 SRC projects to collect bread tags, bottle caps, batteries, pencils and used stationary and more for sorting and recycling to the audience.
Ms Tanja spoke about the school’s Resource Smart Schools (RSS) program and projects as well as her participation in the first ever Whittlesea-based Nature Stewards Program run by Outdoors Victoria.
We congratulate Junayd on receiving an Environmental Volunteering Award at the function by the Minister.
We would like to thank MP Lily D'Ambrosio for her wonderful acknowledgement of Al Siraat’s current sustainability projects and for giving us the opportunity to hear from and connect with other inspiring local groups and school communities.
BBA (Hon)
Tanja joined the College in 2010 in its second year and helped set-up and establish procedures for the administration office. She has been looking after the front school office and new enrolments, being the first point of contact for students and parents for many years. Her role has changed to the College's Content & Relations Lead in mid-2019. Tanja is also one of the College's Sustainability Coordinators.
She was born in Germany where she attended both Primary and High School. Tanja holds an Honours Degree in Business Administration and spent a year in Malaysia as part of her studies where she also worked with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society.
Tanja migrated to Australia in 2006 and has been calling Australia her home ever since. She is an active member of the Al Siraat family, enjoys mountain biking, bush walking and photography and is engaged with interfaith, social justice, wildlife care and rehabilitation in her spare time.
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