TLSS Povery Awareness

Did you know that 1 in 7 Canadians live in conditions of poverty? This means these people can not or have difficulty affording basic products for health such as sanitary pads for women, oral hygiene products, food, etc.. Our group is focusing on supporting the first global goal, which is to end poverty by making ‘care packages’. These packages will contain products such as a toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner, body wash, and shaving cream. We are planning on distributing them to shelters in Orillia and Toronto. We currently have eleven of these care packages, which were donated to us. In order to raise money to make more packages, we are working with two other groups in our class to organize a fundraiser. We are planning to organize a ‘Teacher Bake-off’, which is a competition between departments. We are inviting the teachers at our school in each department to bring in baked goods and sell them, the department who raises the most money will get their department name put on a plaque. Along with this we are planning to sell baked goods and popcorn at a concert fundraiser, which will be run by Jam for Hunger. The money raised by the Teacher Bake Sale and the bake sale at the concert will be split between our group and the TLSSWellBeing group. We’re still at the beginning of our process, there are more fundraising ideas to come.