This school year, the Yorkton Regional High School's SRC is making changes for the better. One of the changes includes submitting columns to Yorkton This Week.
This will inform the community of the projects the SRC is doing. Right now, the focus of the SRC is to be involved with "Free The Children". In 1995, 12 year old Craig Kielburger founded, "Free The Children". Craig read a newspaper article about a boy his age speaking out against child slavery. The life of the boy, from the article, was ended as he tried defending children's rights. After reading the article, Craig along with a small group of his peers, created "Free The Children" to liberate children from poverty and abuse. Today, "Free The Children" is an international movement and the YRHS has climbed on board.
SRC member, Zac Walters went onto the "Free The Children" website. There he discovered a way to help by introducing "We Create Change". Zac presented "We Create Change" in an SRC meeting. Now, the SRC is promoting this movement in our school. "We Create Change" is a huge penny drive that provides water to people in developing countries.
One bag, which is 2500 pennies, gives one person clean water for a lifetime. Our mission was to fill up fifty bags of pennies by Friday, November 3.
Kendall McKee, also an SRC member, found another "Free The Children" project. That project is called "We Create Change". It is to help with the local food bank. This is a campaign where youth trick-or-treated for non-perishable food items on October 31.
The YRHS SRC was busy collecting non-perishable food items around the city of Yorkton this Halloween.
The SRC would like to thank everyone in the community who helped support this cause.
