We Serve

Our school is taking part in We Schools for Action for 2011-2012. A group of 12 students with teacher leaders will kick off a year of service learning by volunteering at Winnipeg Harvest, serving lunch at a soup kitchen and participating in a planning process to implement Empty Bowls with our entire school body. They will connect with their school community and our local community through this project and will have first hand stories to share from their day of serving others.
With Empty bowls all classrooms in the school will design a bowl for auction at a community supper. Classrooms will also contribute ingredients to create “Stone Soup” for the meal. We will invite local seniors to come to the school and teach our students how to bake bread which will then be served with the soup. The WE Serve students will speak at the supper and share their experiences from Winnipeg Harvest and the soup kitchen. Proceeds from the auction of the bowls will be donated to Winnipeg Harvest.

Update (October 29, 2011)

Our group of 22 students and 5 educators has been formed. First contact has been made with Winnipeg Harvest and Siloam Mission for our trip and volunteers are being contacted for aiding in our Empty Bowls plan.

Update (December 1, 2011)

Tomorrow our group will head to Siloam Mission to pack lunches for homeless people who use the mission and work at temp agencies in Winnipeg.

Students have also participated in Halloween for Hunger to aid our local food bank and will be helping out there instead of Winnipeg Harvest. The focus on local became important to us when the food bank visited and shared information with us about the rise in needs in our own area.

Update (February 9, 2012)

The Anola Students Making Change group went to SIloam Mission as planned and worked to pack lunches for clients of the mission who work during the day and cannot attend the meal program.

Students took a tour, learned about extreme poverty and people experiencing homelessness and then worked with staff to pack over 200 lunches.

Students also challenged staff to provide drink boxes for the lunches and collected well over 200 drink boxes for their donation.