Princess Elizabeth Public School helps feed northern families
Ayden W. and Tommy C. assist principal Sean Singh in cutting the hair of teacher Stacey Whittington. Ayden and Tommy raised the most money, giving them the honour of cutting off a pony tail each.
Photo by Lloyd Duke
The students at Princess Elizabeth PS in Orangeville have raised over $1,000 to help supply food banks in Nunavut! As part of their Free the Children/Me to We student group initiative, the students brought in donations of $1020.80 over a period of 9 days during the month of March.
Working alongside the Orangeville chapter of Helping Our Northern Neighbours, a Facebook group that matches families in northern and southern Canada to provide food and supplies to families in the far north, Princess Elizabeth will be stocking the food bank in Clyde River, Nunavut with the donations raised.
Clyde River, a small Inuit hamlet on the shore of Baffin Island’s Patricia Bay, is served mainly by air and has a population of approximately 1,000 people, half of which are under 18. With the high cost of shipping food and supplies by air, food security is a big problem, with prices of goods exponentially higher than in its southern counterparts. A 24 pack of bottled water costs $104.99, one cabbage costs $28.50, and many families have a weekly grocery bill of $600, prices that families often cannot afford.
The Me to We club at PEPS brought awareness of this problem through the “We Stand Together” initiative, doing announcements and making posters, before the kickoff of the fundraising period. The school had a tiered system of goals, gaining a Pajama Day at the $500 mark, a twin day at the $700 mark, and Mrs. Whittington shaving her head during an assembly April 1, 2015 at the $1,000 goal mark.
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