{"id":6189,"date":"2013-02-09T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2013-02-09T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:41:00","slug":"camosun-students-use-candy-grams-to-help-african-orphanage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/02\/09\/camosun-students-use-candy-grams-to-help-african-orphanage\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun students use candy-grams to help African orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at Camosun College are planning a Valentine\u2019s Day candy-gram service that will not only raise the spirits of that special someone on campus, but also raise awareness and funds for an orphanage in Tanzania, Africa.<\/p>\n

Second-year sociology students Carly Charlebois, Amanda Roberts, and Ashley Pollari are undertaking the candy-gram service for a service-learning project in their class.<\/p>\n

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A volunteer from The Small Things swings with a Tanzanian orphan (photo courtesy of The Small Things).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two of the students are also on college\u2019s African Awareness Committee and connected with a charity called The Small Things in Tanzania through fellow student Kristina Alexander, who sits on the charity\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve all been to Africa and having that personal connection to Africa was important and a strong basis for this project,\u201d says Charlebois, who adds that two of the students are planning to visit the orphanage this summer. \u201cA lot of organizations just throw money at people and they don\u2019t know what people really want, so having Kristina here at Camosun is such an amazing connection to the orphanage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The candy-grams are a fundraising and awareness idea that the students came up with along with their professor at Camosun, Francis Abu-Febiri.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancis really embraces innovative and creative fundraising ideas, and everyone does things like bottle drives and this raises more awareness,\u201d says Charlebois. \u201cI\u2019m not for the commercialization of Valentine\u2019s Day, but if we use this to get a nice little message out there, or to say hello to someone, while raising awareness, I think that\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The candy-grams can be ordered in the Fisher Foyer at the Lansdowne campus on February 12 and 13 between 9 am and 5 pm. The recipients will get a call from organizers on Valentine\u2019s Day and the candy-grams, consisting of a card and fair-trade chocolate, can be picked up in the Fisher courtyard, again between 9 am and 5 pm.<\/p>\n

All of the profits from the candy-grams service will go toward The Small Things, which runs a non-profit orphanage called Nkoranga in Tanzania. Specifically, the funds will put towards the building of a children’s village and operation of a HIV health care facility at the orphanage.<\/p>\n

Organizers hope the service will also help to raise awareness about the importance of choosing fair-trade products.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re supporting an African village,\u201d says Charlebois, “and the issues surrounding fair trade and slave labour are a big part of this, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students at Camosun College are planning a Valentine\u2019s Day candy-gram service that will not only raise the spirits of that special someone on campus, but also raise awareness and funds for an orphanage in Tanzania, Africa. Second-year sociology students Carly Charlebois, Amanda Roberts, and Ashley Pollari are undertaking the candy-gram service for a service-learning project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions\/6210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}