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• Vancouver Food Runners
  Vancouver Food Runners partners with food retailers, nonprofit organizations and volunteer food runners to bring food directly to those experiencing food insecurity.  If you can spare some time to deliver food to much needed organizations, this is a great opportunity for families to engage in service together.

  To learn more or volunteer visit: https://www.vancouverfoodrunners.com/volunteer
   

• Covenant House Virtual Sleep-Out
  On July 10, 2020, dedicated individuals and families will come together, virtually, in support of the young people who come to Covenant House Vancouver every day. You will Sleep Out on your living room floor, in your backyard, or on your balcony – united in support of youth experiencing homelessness.
   
  More than 130 youth a day are counting on your involvement.
   
  Your efforts will make a significant difference for homeless youth. As a virtual sleeper, you will still raise vital funds, awareness, and provide hope for a brighter future.

  Event Details

  What: Give up your bed for one night and Sleep Out at home so homeless youth can find a bed at Covenant House. Evening programming online from 8:00pm-9:30pm and morning reflection online at 8:00am.

  Who: Individuals, families, households – this event is for everyone and all ages.

  Why: During this pandemic, homelessness doesn’t stop and neither can we. While everything has closed, we have opened our arms wider to protect youth experiencing homelessness.

  When: Friday, July 10, 2020 from 8:00pm-8:00am

  Where: Sleep Out wherever you are.

  How: www.sleepoutvancouver.org/homeedition Register and create your own fundraising page on our website to help raise awareness and funds.
   

• Help Our Heroes
  Help Our Heroes is a free service to find volunteers to deliver groceries, run errands and take care of urgent demands of Front Line medical staff, essential workers and others who are vulnerable who cannot take care of their needs.
  
  If you want to show your appreciation for these members of our community and have an extra 1-2 hours/week to do a delivery PLEASE VOLUNTEER using this link.  https://www.helpourheroes.ca/volunteer
   

• Write for AdVerum
  theadverum.com
  Students, share your stories during this time of online learning. We want to hear about different initiatives, projects and experiences regarding your thoughts, insights and responses to the pandemic.
  
  Submit images, video footage, photos, or written stories to adverum@mycw.org.
  
  Any ideas/leads people might have for stories, articles, etc. that they can suggest for us to write or report on will be accepted as well.
  
  We will create and curate these as best as we see fit in our site and give credit to people who send us these stories (or even if they are just ideas/leads). 
  
  We will have sections like: recipes for cooking during the quarantine, heroes from our community, deep thoughts (opinion pieces and think pieces on relevant and current events or ideas), creative writing, updates on school events/activities, SGN (video episode that recaps and shares stories collected from the community and the adverum staff of good news within our community) 

• Hank’s Christmas Glitter
  Hank’s Christmas Glitter is a non-profit on the North Shore. Hank will personally pick up your recycling and turn it into gift cards for the homeless and hungry.

  Visit here for more information and to schedule a contactless pick-up.

• Senior Centres
  The West Van Seniors Centre is looking for a donation of Ipads or tablets to support at risk seniors.  All donations can be dropped to the West Vancouver Seniors Centre daily between 10am to 2pm. 
  The Lynn Valley Care Centre is looking for donations of the following:

1. Drawings/painting/artwork for residents
2. Thank you cards for nurses and staff
3. Ziploc bags – large and medium

There will be a collection box just inside the door at Cypress Market Corner Store.  Please put all art work/cards in a Ziploc bag so items can be wiped down and sanitized before being given out to residents.

Visit here for more information - Donations of Compassion Cards, Masks, Puzzles, Tablets etc. needed.

View on Global News here.

• West Van BCSPCA
  The West Van BCSPCA is collecting donations of dry and wet cat food to help folks in our community who cannot afford food for their pets during this difficult time.
  
  Donations can be dropped off between 8:00am-5:00pm in the bin at the front door.

 

 

• Grad Legacy  Project
  
  We are thrilled to announce our Grad Legacy Project. This year we will focus on raising awareness about the state of our environment. As climate change is one of the most urgent issues facing Canada and the world, this is the time for change. Youth all over the world are pushing for action and believe that we can inspire action through awareness and service within our school and local community.
  
  Our work has already begun: many of us participated in the climate strike a couple of weeks ago and we look forward to partnering and learning from 4ocean an organization with one mission – to end the ocean plastic crisis.
  
  Thanks in advance for your support – together we believe we can make a difference.
  
  The Graduating Class of 2020
   

• Our Legacy Project

  We are pleased to announce that we will be working with the Obakki Foundation to build a water well in South Sudan. We invite everyone to show their support for our Legacy Project and get a jump on holiday shopping with the following fundraisers:

  Obakki Shop
  100% of the net proceeds of sales from the online Obakki shop
  will go towards our Legacy Project.

  When making a purchase in the online Obakki shop, please add COLLINGWOOD to your last name in the order form so that proceeds are credited to our legacy account.
   

• Period Promise Campaign of the United Way
  A Student-led Initiative at our Morven Campus
  
  Period poverty is the lack of access to menstrual products, menstrual hygiene education and clean facilities. This is a prevalent, but often invisible, issue in our community. Many women living in poverty have to choose between putting food on the table, and having products for their next period. The week of March 9-13, the Morven campus will be holding a collection for menstrual products in partnership with the Period Promise Campaign of the United Way. These products can be pads, tampons, menstrual cups or menstrual underwear of any size. Collection boxes will be available in the front entrance of Morven. The collected products will be delivered to women in need across the Lower Mainland. Any donations would greatly appreciated.  - Anisa
  
   

• Collingwood Sustainability Council
  
  The Collingwood Sustainability Council has been working very hard to create change and conduct a better, more sustainable school whether this change is big or small. Our mission is to create a zero waste school. We have been working on reducing the waste in the cafeteria as well as working closely with the ZWAP committee to give student feedback. Recently, we started our first project, the worm bin project. This is a waste educational program for younger children. We are targeting the Wentworth students by asking homeroom teachers to keep a portable, stackable worm bin in the classroom. The incorporation of worm bins the classroom waste stream is a very enriching and cyclical learning process. This program will teach children about the function of worms in the food ecosystem and how they can simultaneously reduce food waste and while creating rich compost for the school garden.
  
  Furthermore, Collingwood has entered into a province-wide competition, the BC Green Games, where schools all across BC enter the green projects at their school to showcase the changes they are making. Ultimately, 5 schools will be receiving an award for the “best” project. In addition, there will be a 500 dollar award for the top 4 schools who receive the most votes. Currently, Collingwood is first for the number of votes. Please visit here for more information on the competition and our projects.
  
  Rosie Li & Karen Chan