Santa Sabina College Strathfield was started by a group of Dominican Sisters who travelled to Australia from Ireland to start a Dominican Foundation in Strathfield.
In 1882 they purchased two acres of land for the purpose of building a school and a convent. In 1894 the first building was built and was named the Rosary Lodge which is also known as Lindeman Lodge where it housed six students taking classes on the bottom floor and allowed the sisters to stay on the top floor.
Later that year the “1894” building was built and three boarders joined the school. As the school grew more students came to board, and the school was expanded with a new building called Holyrood. The front wall of Holyrood was made of sandstone and was originally the…show more content… We work with St Vincent De Paul where a few volunteers from Santa Sabina (students and teachers) take a van and visit the many homeless people at Martin Place at least once a month. They bring sandwiches, drinks and sweets, not only do they provide food but they provide company. We also work with Matthew Talbot hostel for homeless men. Matthew Talbot centre hostel provides a place for the homeless men to sleep, eat, take showers and even help them get their life together. Santa Sabina helps by donating soap, shampoo, towels etc.. the seniors at our school also help by setting up and clearing the tables before and after dinner on Thursdays. We work with the Catholic Mission to help refugees with their homework when they have no one to ask like we do. The Edmund Rice works mostly for social justice and Education. They speak out for people who aren’t as privileged as we are, people such as refugees, aboriginals, and people with disorders. We help by donating our hall for them to them for no cost so they can have a literary Justice event where they invite many people and authors to talk. St Lucy’s is a school for children with disabilities where the teachers attend to their special needs, since they might need to have a little more attention from teachers they are unable to go on camp since there aren’t enough teachers to go round, this is where Santa helps by volunteering to go to Tallong with them for three days to help out the teachers. Another project we work with is Kopanang who support women in two towns in south africa. We help them by raising money by buying their projects and making donations of the thread they
