Art with a cause

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Shannon LeClair – Times Reporter

As a part of their yearlong Global Citizenship project, Grade 3 students at Sacred Heart Academy, SHA, designed collection cans for the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta.  Students brought in coffee cans, ice cream pails and a variety of other containers, which they could turn into a collection can.

The kids then decorated the cans with pom-poms, feathers, handprints and messages.

“It was super fun,” said Alex Nwoye, one of the students who designed a can. “We’ve been looking for ways that children could help children around the world, and something as little as making a collection can can help people out,” said teacher Jennifer Yersh. A big part of the project was showing the kids that giving money and donating their things wasn’t the only way to help, but that giving a little of their time could be a big help as well.

Ashlee Guise from the Kids Cancer Care Foundation came to SHA on June 18, to pick up the cans and to talk to the kids about the foundation.

“This was pretty unique, to have a craft project that went all year round was pretty fantastic. We will use them for all of our fundraising events, they will be well used throughout the year,” said Guise. Most of the students were asking about other ways they can help, and many said they are planning to ask for money for their birthdays so they can donate it to the foundation.