Our first major hurdle was that coordinating the schedules of three people proved surprisingly difficult and sorting out the timing took a lot of effort. Once we arrived at Lafarge, we faced an unexpected shift in the project’s scope: there was a lot less general litter than we had anticipated, […]
The main part of our action is now complete! My peers and I were finally able to settle on a date and go around, helping our local community. On Thursday, we spent a good chunk of our evening in Lafarge lake park picking up pieces of garbage from various areas […]
May 14th, 2026 This week, our group discussed a date we were all available to participate in the clean up, and we decided that Lafarge would be a great location to put our goals in action. We are however pretty flexible with the location and timing, so it might change […]
1.) Where are you with your action? Currently, Dara, Rima and I have been discussing which park would be more suitable to schedule our days at, and which times would work with everybody’s schedule. We have been discussing what the best strategies could be, and also learning about other experts’ […]
Summary of my action For this term, me and 2 other classmates are planning on focusing on cleaning up our local environments and picking up garbage. We are going to simply start by planning which specific areas we want to focus on, and wether we want to focus on one […]
My 3 most important values are Equality, Freedom, and Compassion. My 3 least important values are Tradition, Tolerance, and Power. I agree with the results for the most part, some values may have changed since doing the activity last semester, but overall I believe I kept the same core values […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? One of the biggest challenges during this action project was scheduling. Our goal was to volunteer by teaching first aid skills to elementary school students, but the session happened during a period when […]
1.) Where are you with your action? We have basically completed our action. Rima and Dara were able to provide Baker Drive elementary students with a helpful presentation about First Aid. I unfortunately was not able to schedule a time, as I had classes. So, we decided to split the […]
1.) Where are you with your action? 2.) What are some successes that you have had? 2. One of the biggest successes has been actually finding a school and specific class that is interested in contributing to our project and learning something from it as well. In addition, we have […]
1.) Where are you with your action? So far, all 3 of us have started contacting different local schools, and explaining our project with details like the cause, and benefits. We have not heard back from any schools yet, but we are planning on contacting other areas as well potentially […]
Blog Post 1 – Action Post: Values Activity & Aligning this with Global Millennium Goals My most important values are equality, justice and belonging. I chose equality because I think that no matter your life conditions, you deserve opportunities that everyone else gets as well. I think that equality, while the […]
Hi! My name is Golsa, and I am a 16 year old student currently attending Dr. Charles Best Secondary. I am very excited to share more about myself on this post! I was born and raised in Iran, until I moved to Montreal in 2017, then moved to Vancouver a […]
