At a November leadership conference, Vancouver students cross the “Lava Pit,” a game guaranteed to build teamwork and incite laughter.

Greetings from the road!

Garry and Erin here from the We Generation! Speaking Tour, writing from our ‘office’ in a coffee shop in beautiful downtown Vancouver. Since the last time you heard from us in November, we have been crisscrossing North America and having a great time!

While in Vancouver, the youth shared some really cool ideas with us on how they are taking action for a better world. We want to share these ideas with you, in hopes that they will inspire you to turn your passion into reality.

• Point Grey Secondary School has set their holiday food drive goal at 30,000, almost doubling what they collected last year! The Student Council and global issues club have also extended the challenge to all local high schools in order to increase the city-wide total and, ultimately, to end local hunger.
• Motivated by the fact that Canadians produce the most garbage per person in the world, Churchill Secondary School is planning a ‘no garbage day.’ They’re going to measure their school’s impact on the environment by collecting all the garbage produced in one day. They will also sell reusable containers in the cafeteria to make sure that no garbage is created.

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• King George Secondary School is starting a volunteering club to teach fellow students about all the exciting opportunities available. They are conducting a school-wide survey to determine interests and will then find and create volunteer opportunities based on the results. The volunteering club is also planning an ivy clean-up in a local park because the plant is damaging the local ecosystem.

All over the city of Vancouver, high school students are teaching us that the holidays are a time for giving back to local and global communities with a generous and energetic spirit. And in the words of the students from Point Grey, “this spirit is good any time of year!”

In peace,

Garry and Erin