The Sundre High School Leadership Club earlier this summer dedicated its efforts to seeking donations of items from local sponsors to prepare care packages destined for Yellowknife.
“We were in contact with a leadership advisor up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories,” explained Keyanna St. Dennis, who started Grade 12 this year.
“We had done a video conference with the leadership class and asked them the items that we should put into the packages.”
Some of the goods, she said, included but were not limited to hats, sunscreen, toiletries and lip balm.
“We began gathering supplies throughout the 2017-18 school year, but we never found a way to get them sent up north, although we had been in contact with many transportation companies.”
Finally, in June, the students were able to send the packages through Canada Post to a school in Yellowknife. The students at the school, along with their advisor, then delivered the items to the homeless within their community, she said.
“We had a total of 15 packages that would have been delivered.”
The project was largely inspired by St. Dennis’s 2017 experience at the Global Vision Arctic Youth Ambassador summit in Nunavut, where she witnessed high numbers of people with no homes who were in need.
She expressed appreciation on behalf of the leadership club to not only everyone who contributed items, but also those who helped make sure the packages reached their destination.
