Students to embark on 40 hour backpack challenge to help refugees

Tanya Marschke
Updated August 8 2017 - 4:14pm, first published 10:01am
FOR REFUGEES: Orange Christian School Backpack Challenge participants Caitlyn Parkinson, Charlie Hodges, Lucy Grant, Kirsten Barnes, Suzie Daugherty, Brad Coleman, Elise Reilly, Natalia Taberner, Jess Grant. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
FOR REFUGEES: Orange Christian School Backpack Challenge participants Caitlyn Parkinson, Charlie Hodges, Lucy Grant, Kirsten Barnes, Suzie Daugherty, Brad Coleman, Elise Reilly, Natalia Taberner, Jess Grant. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

Students at Orange Christian school are joining in a new challenge as part of the 40 hour famine from August 11 to 13. 

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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