Picture the Future Campaign has taken off!

Photo Credit: Gilbert G. Groud, Wikimedia Commons

It’s the first week of collecting donation from our wonderful volunteers, and it is quite exciting to see all the support from the schools and youth we are receiving! Volunteers are asking friends, family, and individuals to take pictures with them, while fundraising to raise money to rehabilitate former child soldiers.

The tables have turned and it is a two school split in two months: John G. Diefenbaker and Lester B. Pearson go head to head again, a departure from Canadian politics, to race in a picture marathon where students are competing against the other to see which school raises the most money! While Diefenbaker and Pearson square off in March, Crescent Height and Sir Winston Churchill will be participating in full flight in April! Watch for more fundraising activites in April…rumour has it at performances.

To which ever school does best!  Expanding from the city wide high school competition, Lisa Bui (Co-Creator and Co-Organizer of Picture the Future Campaign) has rallied up her U of C colleagues for more support to this fundraiser!    

Good luck to all donation collectors and may the most creative and successful team win! Attend the event on Facebook!

Join the Movement! Picture the Future Campaign.

A Call to Action

                                                                                                                            Dear Agents of Change,

Essentially, we (WeiJia Qin and Lisa Bui) had decided we wanted to create a fundraiser in order to raise money to help promote Red Cross’s CAR program in Liberia. How we were planning to run our fundraiser is that people collected pledges for taking pictures. These pictures will consist of the participant with the sign, “I believe in education for all”, with another person or people. The goal of picture taking is to be a collaborative goal, as people will be taking picture that will be turned into a huge collage. WeiJia and I are hoping to invite celebrities to take their own pictures with their own handmade sign, “I Believe In Education for All”, “For Healthier, Stronger and more Resilient Communities”, or “I Believe Education is a Right”. The point is to “picture the future” and to raise money and awareness for the cause. Ask for a pledge and then take the picture(s).

I would really love it if I could gain your help, in raising the awareness of this campaign and rallying people to participate!

I will provide more information if you great people decides to become involved! Thanks so much for helping out! Please contact picturethefuturemovement@gmail.com for more information or to get involved!

Sincerely,
Picture The Future Movement, Lisa Bui and WeiJia Qin

Join the Movement!

 

Children learning masonry at a CAR Centre

Without educations and skills, whole communities will never have the chance or knowledge to break the cycle of poverty and violence. Join the movement and picture the future yourself.