Please give generously and support the Westheights Sr. High group as they raise money for children in need around the world by doing the 30 Hour Famine! The group will not eat from 1:00pm on Friday, April 1 to 7:00pm on Saturday, April 2 to both raise funds and to get a small taste of what it is like to go hungry.
Together we have set out to raise $1000 for World Vision. The money we collect will help provide food and nutrition, clean water, an education and protection for children who would otherwise be ignored.
CLICK HERE to visit our group’s page and to sponsor a student as they go hungry so others don’t have to! (Or be sure to approach a student on a Sunday morning.)
As well – please consider buying a Living Red t-shirt for $15! The shirts are made under ethical conditions and all profits will go towards our fundraising effort.
Senior Highs: visit famine.ca for more information and to register a ‘My Famine’ account and start raising money! (Our group is registered as “Westheights Student Ministries”.) Pick up a standard collection sheet from Gillian as well.
As well, Senior Highs, you are invited to join us at 7:00pm on Friday, April 1 and stay overnight through Saturday, April 2 at 8:00pm. We will have all kinds of activities going on at the church to keep you busy and (hopefully) therefore not thinking about your stomach! Please remember to bring a pillow and sleeping bag, games to play, movie to watch and any toiletries you’ll need for an overnight stay. WE ARE PLANNING TO SLEEP since we have it on good authority that you don’t eat anyway while you’re asleep. Go figure! We will be eating a small meal together at 7:00pm on Saturday.
If you have any questions, please contact Gillian Fenske at gillianfenske@westheights.org or 519-741-1986 ext. 805.
Hello Jordan! Thank you for being so encouraging!
You are absolutely right: young people can and do make such a difference! I’ve always felt really inspired by Craig Kielburger who started working to change after reading a newspaper article that impacted him. He was only 12 at the time too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Kielburger
hey guys hope you raise enough money to make a difference!! there should be more people like you in the world! I love that you want to make a difference in the world just like me! I am 12 years old and if people my age started making the world better, we would all be happy!! continue making the world happy!!
Bye!!!!!! 🙂
Hello Neusa! There are about 25 kids doing the famine with us this year. A really great group of passionate students!
Hello Gillian,
Do you know how many youth will be participating in the 30 hour famine?
Sounds good. Good enough. Thanks! — it all goes to the same place, yup 🙂
Hey Doug! Sorry for the delay. I wrote to World Vision about this and this is the response I received:
“The ‘Donate Now’ button would allocate the donation to the general Famine Fund. In order for the donation to go to a specific individual, they would need to have sent you their specific donation link. When you click on their link, it would allow you to donate to their specific Famine event.”
I’m not sure if that is true for the Donate Now button on our group’s page, but it may very well be. I can imagine that it would be messy for them to divide up a group donation between everyone in the group. Sorry to not be of more help in that regard!
I would suggest picking a student you know and donating the money to them. It all goes to the same place anyway, right? 🙂
Gillian, I looked at the group’s page on the myfamine.worldvision.ca website and it lists all of the youth, but when you click the Donate Now button it just asks for a dollar amount. Does that amount get evenly credited to all of the youth, or can it be attributed to one or more youth on the form (and I just missed that option)? Just wondering about how the online funds might be allocated or credited to the fundraisers, the youth (not that it matter much, just a curiousity). Thanks.