PROJECTS
Period Kits
Period poverty is one social issue that TWC is passionate about. In Canada, 34% of women and girls have to make budgetary sacrifices for menstrual products. A further 64% of women and girls had to miss an activity because they are not being able to access menstrual products or proper sanitation facilities. TWC initiated a project where we prepared 500 period kits including sanitary pads and tampons to donate to the YWCA - a non-profit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries. We hope this initiative can help ease the struggle of low-income women.
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Bottle Drive
We kickstarted 2022 by a bottle drive. It was our first time running a fundraiser. We created posters, flyers and passed them around our community to promote this initiative and simultaneously asked for some donations. We collected all recyclables, including plastic bottles, glass bottles, wine bottles, soda cans, literally anything that could exchange into money at the local Valley Redemption Centre. The initiative lasted for a couple weeks and all proceeds went towards the Canadian Red Cross. As a result, we gathered approximately 1000 recyclables, raising $100. We are really grateful for the support!
Food Hampers
This was a project in Nov-Dec when Christmas was coming and many charities were in need of donations. Back then, we tried to target homeless youth seeking services in Youth Quest center. Coincidentally, they were looking for non-perishable foods. Therefore, Teens We Care spent a few days making 75 food hampers. Here are what a hamper had (photo shown): chicken noodle soup, green peas, sliced mushroom, pasta, rice, hot chocolate, instant noodle, sliced chicken, and pasta sauce. Christmas is one of the most important holidays in Canada and by donating food to a local non-profit, we hoped to bring happiness to more people during Christmas time.
Homeless Care Packages
Packing homeless care packages was a big project that our founder and core members had planned for a while. We came up with this initiative after reading an article addressing the difficulties that homeless people had suffered from during the pandemic. Thanks to the funders, we were able to pack 100 care packages which contained necessities, such as toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, energy bars, gloves, socks, … We spent around two weeks managing the funds and purchasing items. Finally, we delivered those to House of Nazareth - a homeless shelter. We hope this project could help vulnerable populations like homeless people prepare for the upcoming winter.
Workshop
Hosting a workshop for students was our fourth project. The topic of discussion was Environment Stewardship. Although it did not align with our utmost mission, it was still an important theme that should get more attention from young generations. The workshop was one hour and a half, which was divided into two sections. The first section was about environmental issues and the causes, while in the second part, we discussed some possible solutions that young people could do to make a difference.
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School Supplies Donation
Here is our third project. In February, we donated school supplies such as pens, pencils, crayons, and pencil cases to the Moncton Headstart, which is a charitable community agency dedicated to providing quality early family intervention and support services to help children and their families realize their full potential. We have acknowledged the demand for school supplies for children in need. Therefore, the goal of this project was to support the Moncton Headstart for their back-to-school program in the summer, which aims to help children have a better start as they return to school. Click here to learn more about their amazing campaign.
Book Drive
In order to expand our little free library and provide free books for low-income families, we organized a book drive, which surprisingly received a lot of attention. We set up a drop-off box next to our library and asked visitors to donate any gently used books that they no longer needed. So far, we have received over 70 books of a variety of genres, including comics, children books, textbooks, fiction,... We were also supported by the Little Free Library non-profit organization. A huge thank you to those who donated!
Little Free Library
After two months, we carried out our first project, which was to build a little free library in a neighborhood. We designed, bought materials from the Home Depot, and assembled the library by ourselves. We also reused some old paints that we got to decorate the library. Because we were living in a pandemic, we created a procedure for people to safely exchange books. There is a map that features all the free libraries across the world, we also registered and got charter #114308. You can look it up on littlefreelibrary.org. Our goal for this project was to spread the joy of reading and connect people amidst the pandemic where interaction is limited.