Tracy Sim, Times-Chronicle
A group of SOSS students work together to make the world a better, “sweeter” place, for marginalized women and those in crisis.
The SOSS Student Voice Club seeks out causes that everyone can be involved with. Club members talk about two fundraising projects they’re currently working on.
Student, Shael Narayan is the leader of a project called ’She-Drive’ that involves informing the student body about the need for feminine hygiene products that will be donated to marginalized women.
Narayan has done this type of campaign before and had boxes set around the school so students could leave their donated items. These are then distributed to the local woman’s focused charity, South Okanagan Women In Need Society (SOWINS), based in Penticton.
And student Zephyr Pickell is the leader of a “candy jar” fundraiser that involves selling guesses at the number of candy pieces in the jar with the closest guess winning the jar and the candy.
This year he secured donated candy from Buy-Low Foods that will result in a 100 per cent cash benefit that will also be donated to SOWINS.
Ari Kendrick talked about his involvement with the club over the last year. During the recent flooding events, Kendrick helped organize the collection of practical personal items such as toothpaste, blankets, and other care supplies to help residents make it through the initial chaos in the Princeton (Vernon) and Fraser Valley areas after the atmospheric river event.
Their formula isn’t complicated, but highly useful. The students in the club simply watch what’s happening in the world around them, recognize a specific need, then act on it.
