Exciting news as 1000 School Challenge member The Grove Community School and friends has been matched with a refugee family through Lifeline Syria with a family of ten expected to arrive before Christmas!
Article in InsideToronto.com about Dewson Street Jr Public School’s fundraiser and the 1000 Schools Challenge.
People are reading about us in Russia! Marcus Gee’s column on Dewson kids solving the refugee crisis has been translated and published in SVpressa.ru. Please take a look here.
The Dewson St Jr Public School community did it – they raised over $30k in less than 30 days. Congratulations to everyone involved. For more information about Dewson’s campaign and progress, visit their website here. To get more schools involved in the 1000 Schools Challenge, please feel free to share this flyer here.
Globe and Mail article on kids at Dewson St Jr Public School and what they are doing to sponsor a refugee family. By Marcus Gee
Read some stories from the 1000 School Challenge press conference at Dewson Street Jr Public School:
The Dewson School Community Refugees Welcome and #1kSchools4Refugees on CBC’s Late Night News. Follow this link to watch (story starts at the 4:10 mark).
Great news! The Grove and Friends, a school community working with the help of the community at Hawthorne School, both in Toronto, have so far raised over $31,000! They will have their first sponsorship meeting tomorrow to begin work on their settlement plan.
We launched a set of new online resources for the 1000 Schools Challenge, including a how-to guide for organizing with lots of useful links and contacts. We also identified a hashtag — #1000kSchools4Refugees — please, help us get the word out on social media! We’ve heard from 10 schools so far that are thinking about doing a sponsorship. Are you interested? Do you know other schools we should connect with?
The Dewson School Community Refugees Welcome launches their sponsorship campaign and challenge with media release and press conference. Can the Dewson School Community Refugees Welcome raise $30,000 in 30 days – and will 1000 schools start the process to sponsor refugee families?
Watch the CTV story:
The Dewson School community launches their campaign to sponsor a refugee family. The school has about 400 families and 30 staff. Within 36 hours, 298 families responded to a survey about refugee sponsorship. 83% of families said they wanted our school to sponsor a refugee. Almost all of them said they would like to make a financial contribution, and almost a third were interested in becoming involved in the process, from fundraising, to work on the application process, to providing concrete support in the settlement process from finding housing, training and work opportunities to helping the family get settled.