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Hi Friends!

Garry and Erin here from the We Generation! Speaking Tour. Just the other day, we were blown away when a big thought hit us during a workshop at St. Andrews College.

We were taking a drive on the “Issues Bus,” an imaginary bus that challenges passengers to hop off on one side or the other based on which side of an issue they feel is more important. At one bus stop, for instance, one side could be the colour red and the other blue. At another stop, they might have to get off on the meat-eater side or the vegetarian side.

Decisions are made at each stop, and the choices get harder to make and to justify as the bus moves forward. When it comes to issues such as human rights versus the environment, most people have a hard time choosing.

One of the hardest stops challenges students to confront their perceptions of people living on the street without a home. The question goes like this: “Is it homelessness, or is it laziness?” That’s it. That’s all we say. And passengers have to get off the bus on the side of either homelessness or laziness.

St. Andrew’s students cross the dangerous Lava Pit with passion!

A Grade 10 student on the “laziness side” simply stated, “It is laziness. It’s laziness by ALL of us, all over the world, everywhere. If we continue to ignore the problems that cause people to be homeless, we are part of the problem, and we are lazy because we aren’t doing anything about it.”

We all nodded in agreement.

That is a huge thought. A thought without restrictions. A thought that will change the world.

In peace,

Garry and Erin
From the road on the We Generation! Speaking Tour, sponsored by National Bank Financial.

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