ODSS students raise thousands during Coldest Night of the Year event
March 11, 2021
ORANGEVILLE, Ontario – Students at Orangeville District Secondary School recently participated in the Canada-wide Coldest Night of the Year event, which was held February 20.
The Coldest Night of the Year event sees thousands of Canadians come together in their communities to walk through the cold at night. This walk is to raise awareness for those Canadians who are experiencing homelessness and are forced to take shelter where they can outside.
At ODSS, students in the grade 12 Leadership Class, the Care Bears, and students in the grade 10 Civics classes participated in the event.
At the start of February, the Care Bears set a fundraising goal of $2,500. As a group, they created flyers that shared their objective and fundraising goal. Quickly this group surpassed their fundraising goal and raised it to $7,000. By February 20, the Care Bears had raised $8,160 for the cause.
Doing their own fundraising, the grade 10 Civics classes at the school also raised significant funds for the cause. By February 20, they had raised $3,770.
The Care Bears team placed first out of all the teams in Orangeville, donations from ODSS placed them second out of all schools involved in Canada and at the end of the day, ODSS had placed 172nd out of 4,434 participating teams in Canada.
By the end of their fundraising efforts, the ODSS Care Bears and grade 10 Civics classes had raised a combined total of $11,930 for the Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser.
Congratulations to all the students and staff involved in this fundraiser.
To learn more about the Coldest Night of the Year, visit the fundraiser website.
