Hey Engineers and welcome back! I hope all of you have had the chance between assignments and whatnot to enjoy the warm weather…when it actually co-operates. There are a lot of awesome outreach events coming up this summer, with chances for you to purple yourselves for charity, volunteer at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener leading kids through fun and interactive science and engineering experiments, march with EngSoc in the Toronto Pride Parade, volunteer at Canada Day at CIF, and so much more!
I wanted to talk about the charity for which EngSoc has been and is currently raising funds, oneROOF. This is an organization located in downtown Kitchener that works towards maintaining the health and safety of youth aged 12-25 that are facing or at-risk of homelessness. Funds that we raise through our charity initiatives will go towards providing food, medical attention, services, and education to those in need as well as educating the public on homelessness and related issues.
Over the Spring 2014 term, members of A and B Societies voted on which charitable organization they wanted to see their money go towards for twelve consecutive months, starting in September 2014 and ending in August 2015. Over the Fall and Winter terms, we have collectively raised a total of over $3600! Thanks to everyone who donated or participated in EngSoc’s charity events so far, your money is going towards an excellent cause.
Get excited for all of the awesome charity events we have in store for you this term! Check out the calendar to get involved and hopefully, by the end of the term, bring our grand charities total to $5000! If you want to learn more about ROOF, check out their website at http://oneroof.org/ and feel free to shoot me an email at vpexternal.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or want to get involved in charity or any other initiatives. Thanks for reading and have an awesome-tacular-ific day 🙂
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