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In 2006, Will Fazan, vice-principal at Shuswap Middle School, met with a committee of students from each of our middle and secondary schools. They spent a year researching charities to decide the focus for our district. This group chose to work with "Free the Children" a charity who believe we make the biggest difference "For Youth, By Youth." The committee strongly believed that it was important to contribute not just globally, but also to support the needs in each of our local communities.
Over the last four years, our students and staff have raised over $42,000 to support Free the Children's Adopt A Village program as well as support a number of local projects. We built a Junior Secondary School in Sukudo, Sierra Leone, and completely adopted the village in Sierra Leone by funding a Clean Water Project, an Alternative Income Project and a Health Care Project. Once we finished the village in Sierra Leone, we moved our efforts to Kenya where we have completed a school and are now working on projects to support the school.
Our current local focus is supporting the Aboriginal students in our district. This year we will be working with Me to We to provide the Sacred Circle Leadership Training progam to build confidence and leadership skills in our Aboriginal students throughout the district. In addition, individual schools continue to participate in a wide range of activities in their own communities including; supporting local food banks through food donations, knitting scarves and tuques for homeless people, and becoming involved and aware of their own local needs so that they can make a positive difference.
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