Mulgrave’s Global Nomads team is fighting hunger (#2 of the Sustainable Development Goals known as Zero Hunger) through the Hunger Challenge 2020! With your help, we can tap into funding from the Bezos Foundation ($6 per recipe submitted).

Around 821 million people struggle with hunger worldwide. With the COVID-19 crisis, getting access to food is becoming extremely challenging for people below or close to the poverty line. Everyone deserves the right to obtain food in order to have a healthy lifestyle.

This activity is fun for the entire family and appropriate for social distancing. 

All you have to do is submit an artfully illustrated version of a recipe (see below for an example) - either real, imaginative or conceptual that reflects culture, community, and connection by June 16th 2020. Including steps to make the recipe is even better!

To submit, you can share photos of your recipe via email (duha@mulgrave.com or luv@mulgrave.com) or submit through our google drive folder. Please also complete this information in this form. Submit as many as you want!

With each artwork submitted, the Bezos Family Foundation is donating $6. This money goes to programmes and organisations providing immediate hunger relief and prevention, nutrition education, and the development of long-term, community-based agricultural solutions.  

Remember: A little bit goes a long way. SO LET'S GET COOKING!

Communities around the world have been showing their support and appreciation for frontline workers by getting out and making noise! In Vancouver, it's 7:00pm every day...get out there and cheer, bang your pots and pans, and say thank you!

You can also show your support to everyone, and spread a little cheer, by decorating paper hearts and putting them in your window. It also makes for a fun 'heart hunt' when people go for a walk. See this article to learn more

Contact: Zia J

You can contribute to Backpack Buddies, an organisation that our Upper School has supported for the past three years. The charitable organisation fills backpacks with food for students who access school meal programmes, and distributes them for weekend nourishment. They have expanded during this time to serve even more students and fill the gaps created by school closures. Traditionally, we have collected non-perishable food items for donation from our community. Due to the current situation, we would like to raise awareness and are also collecting funds. 

Please click here to donate.

Contact: Ethan C, Chloe S, Grace W

Our beloved Vancouver Aquarium is at risk of closing down due to bankruptcy amidst this health crisis. The Aquarium is home to more than 70,000 animals, including rescued animals who are incapable of living in the wild. These animals rack up a monthly food cost of about one million dollars, and without the doors being open to the public, the Aquarium is unable to earn the revenue to take care of the animals and maintain the exhibits. 

What makes the Aquarium so important? Why should you donate? The Vancouver Aquarium is home to the only Marine Mammal Rescue in all of Canada. They rescue, rehabilitate, and release over 150 animals each year. The lives of these animals would have been lost, had they not been helped. This in itself, is a crucial role the Aquarium plays in our environment. If their facilities were to close permanently, they would not be able to find homes for all the animals within two months. 

So how can you help? Well as Mulgrave students and Volunteers of the aquarium, we have started a GoFundMe Page here you can donate any amount you would like as no amount is too small. 100% of the donations will be given to the Vancouver Aquarium. You can also directly give to the Vancouver Aquarium Donation Page. If you have been looking for a present, gift for all those celebrating birthdays in quarantine or a little something to treat yourself, you can visit the Vancouver Aquarium Online Gift shop where you can find many things from plushies and metal straws to clothing made from recycled material meaning you also may be helping the environment while saving the aquarium. Any of these three ways will be of great help to our beloved Vancouver Aquarium.

Contacts: Ahna N, Kate B, Kamran H, Ryan C, Mikkah D (part of Mulgrave’s Senior School Action Council) 

One of the challenges facing retirement homes at this time of the COVID pandemic and physical distancing, is that visitors are not allowed to visit family members or see their loved ones as a means of  limiting the spread to susceptible seniors. As well, first responders are real life heroes, putting their lives at risk to help support us all in the fight to plank COVID-19. We have created an initiative to bring the Mulgrave community, first responders, and seniors together.

Our initiative is a combination of two concepts: partnering with the West Vancouver Youth Action Council (YAC) to collect letters, art pieces, and physical contributions from Mulgrave students and families and creating a video montage of individual video clips from the Mulgrave student community sharing positive and uplifting messages. Videos can include students of all ages doing something fun such as dancing, singing, sports tricks, sending inspiration and warm messages, sharing a new hobby...whatever will  bring a smile to a senior's faces!

Following physical distancing guidelines and sanitation protocols, these contributions will be sent to several local senior retirement homes and first responders. We believe these efforts are a great act of kindness and  show we care and support these important people.

So, show your creativity during this time when you are also  physically isolated and create a connection between our community and Mulgravians!

Artwork and letters can be dropped off at school before MAY 12th during the schools business hours. If you are uncomfortable dropping off your creations at the school please contact noormohameda@mulgrave.com and we can arrange to pick them up from your house from a social distance. Please send videos (45 seconds or less) and photos to hemanik@mulgrave.com with the subject line: SENIORS INITIATIVE! 

Contact: Victoria L

The Youth Philanthropy Council from the West Vancouver Foundation is adapting their #100YouthWhoCare Event which enlists youth from our local community to help us grant to local charities. Although we are unable to host this event in person for June, we are taking a different approach to grant funds through our 'Charity of the Week.'

Over the next four weeks (April 27th-May 18th), we will post about a charity on our Instagram account @ypcwestvan. Each like on the post = $1 donation and because of our donors, 1 like = $4. Our goal is to have 250 likes per week; equivalent to a $1,000 donation.

The first week was extremely successful and we reached out goal on the first day, within hours. Nonetheless, we still need help and ongoing support on social media. We will donate to three more charities : The Harvest Project, the Northshore Crisis Services Centre, and the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention of B.C. 

Like @ypcwestvan 's posts and you are supporting initiatives which support other youth in need during COVID-19.