The Global Education Club

Accomplishments: 

• Collected 62 pairs of eyeglasses to be sent to needing eyes in developing countries via Canadian Federation for World Development

• Collected food school-wide for Food bank for World Food Day, October 16

• Ordered films from Oxfam for staff/students for World Food Day

• Distributed materials for the Cookie Game (demonstrating unfair distribution of food and wealth) for World Food Day to each classroom

• Helped with Unicef advertising at Halloween. The Marcellus family coordinated the Unicef boxes. 

• Sold poppies for Remembrance Day

• Raised $69 for Pueblito with a raffled Christmas wreath

• Raised $83 for Salvation Army homeless shelter with a Valentine's bear raffle

• For International Women’s Day, March 8, we distributed sheets through the school asking what life would be like if we'd been born the other gender. Both students and staff participated - the results were very interesting!

• Made a construction paper rainbow out of every student's traced hand for Anti-Racial Discrimination Day, March 21, and hung it in the gym so parents could view it during Parent Teacher interviews, celebrating the many colours of our school

• Raised money for World Wildlife Federation with Mother’s Day carnation sale

• Raised $52 for Sierra Legal Defence Fund with Father’s Day chocolate sucker sale

• Distributed 2,000 tree seeds to students in the district for Earth Day

• Student Natasha Newman did presentation about the Global Club to the Ft. McMurray Public School Board
  

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