“Today’s young peopleare the generation ofshameless idealists ourworld has been waitingfor,” says a quote from theFree the Children’s web-site.

On Tuesday, students ofIsland Lake Public School

(ILPS), the shameless ide-alists of this generation,cheered and applaudedtheir efforts for change atthe final ‘Me to We’assembly of the year.

ILPS students beat theirinitial fundraising goaland as a happy coinci-dence were able to watchas Ms. Clark, a grade eightteacher, got her head

shaved by her coworker,Mr. Broderik.

Amanda Clark, the cap-tain of the ‘Me to We’club, made a deal with thekids in the club that if theyreached their goal of$2500, that she wouldshave her head. The clubmore then met their side ofthe bet, raising $3055.16that will go to support arural village in China bygiving them the tools theyneed for a sustainableincome.

Ms. Clark said that atfirst the club was onlymeant for grades sevenand eight students, but shewas receiving so manyrequests from lowergrades that the clubexpanded to include gradefive and six students.

“This is our first yearwith ‘Me to We’,” saidMs. Clark. “I wasn’t surehow much we would takeon, but you can’t tell kidsto take it slow and westarted taking on more andmore.”

The students wereinspired to take actionafter they attended the ‘WeDay’ in Toronto. Free theChildren’s We Day is anevent to that starts off ayear-long program createdto celebrate the ability of

young people to createpositive change in theworld. The event kicks off

We Schools in Action. Any school that wishes

to attend is invited to the

experience provided theyfollow the We Schools inAction program through-out the year.

The event brings inspi-rational speakers and per-formances to students,giving them the energy totake home and take actionon local and internationalissues in their schools.

“They worked reallyreally hard; they did anamazing job,” said Ms.Clark.

“They got kids whoweren’t involved with ‘Meto We’ involved by sellingthem bracelets and takingdonations.”

At first, only 20 stu-dents were involved, butby the end there was anaverage of 30 to 40 stu-dents at every club meet-ing.

‘Me to We’ is a partneris the Free the ChildrenFoundation, the world’slargest network of childrenhelping children througheducation.

Craig Kielburger, inter-national child rightsactivist, started Free theChildren with 11 of hisgrade seven friends in1995 to fight child labour.Since then, more than onemillion young people havegotten involved in pro-

grams in 45 countries.Free the Children haveraised money to build 650schools and schoolroomsin 16 countries. They areeducating more then55,000 children every day.Clean water, health careand alternative income aredifferent things that thisorganization has broughtpeople in need.

Throughout the schoolyear the club organized alot of fundraisers as wellas spent endless hoursmaking bracelets for theBracelets for Change.

The first initiative was‘Halloween for Hunger,’where students collectedfood as well as, or insteadof, candy in support of thelocal food bank. They col-lected a total of 411pounds of food items.

The next successfulfundraiser they participat-ed in was a ‘Toys for Tots’campaign, with 504 toysbeing collected by stu-dents and distributed bythe local police, ensuing amore Merry Christmas forneedy families.

Bracelets for Changebegan after Christmaswith the Adopt a VillageCampaign, the ‘Me to We’club being able to raise

over $1300 selling thebracelets. The sparechange jug in the frontoffice earned $105.59.

The club raised over$300 with their Pie theTeacher activity. Studentswere encouraged to donateto ensure that their teachergot ‘pied’. A ‘LoonieJammie Day’ earned$403.57, and the firstannual Used Book Sale,held during the IslandLake Maple SyrupFestival, raised an impres-sive $900.

“I’ve been reallyimpressed with the kids atILPS’ global conscious-ness,” said Ms. Clark. “Iwould never have donewhat I did today if it was-n’t for those kids, it’s asymbol of how proud I amof them.”

Ms. Clark said ILPSwill be continuing theireffort to raise money forthe ‘Me to We’ campaignin coming years. All thefunds raised will be goingto a rural village in Chinato help the villagersachieve self-sustainingincome.

“I am proud to be theirteacher,” said Ms. Clark.“I am proud of all of ourstudents.”

A6 April 21, 2011 Orangeville Citizen/Free Press and Economist

By LINDSEY PAPP

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Photo/LINDSEY PAPP$2,500 SHAVE: Amanda Clark, captain of IslandLake Public School’s ‘Me to We’ club, made adeal with the club’s members that if they reachedtheir fund-raising goal of $2,500, she would haveher head shaved. The club more then met theirside of the bet, raising $3055. Here, Ms. Clarksits patiently as Mr. Broderik shaves her head tothe raucous applause of a gymnasium full of stu-dents at Tuesday’s assembly.