The We Scare Hunger initiative at Spruce Ridge School continues to be a successful campaign for the Estevan Salvation Army’s Food Bank.
Students at the school contributed nearly 1,100 food items to We Scare Hunger this year, bringing the total number of items collected during the four-year history of We Scare Hunger to more than 4,000.
The school’s We Day Club spearheads We Scare Hunger every year. Jody Copeland, the learning supports instructor at Spruce Ridge, said they had a class challenge, and the classroom that collected the most items received a sundae party.
“They do a great job every year and take it on,” said Copeland. “They know exactly how to do it, and it’s like a well-oiled machine now.”
One of the Grade 7 classes was the top class with more than 200 items.
Copeland said the We Day Club continues with We Scare Hunger because they want to support the community, in addition to their efforts to assist global initiatives.
Forty-seven students are part of the We Day Club this year. Twenty-five of them, along with 17 students from Pleasantdale School, were in Winnipeg on Tuesday for the We Day Manitoba conference. They were acknowledged on-stage at the conference for all of their contributions in recent years.
They heard music from some prominent musicians, and important messages from some well-known speakers.
“We were nine rows from centre stage, on the floor, this year, so they had a good experience with it,” said Copeland. “They came back with some great ideas. We have about a year and a half planned in the works, that hopefully we can pull together.”
The Spruce Ridge We Day Club is looking to participate in the We are Silent Campaign in November, in which they would be silent at school for a day, to show “how young girls and students don’t have a voice in some parts of the world.”
They will support the Community Hamper Association and the Angel Tree program in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
