Did you know that every month, over 720,000 Canadians receive food from a food bank and 39% of them are children?
To end the month of October with a bang, QFTC is working with the Meal Exchange for their annual Trick or Eat! This Friday, October 31 we will be collecting non-perishable food items for our local food banks in an effort to address the local concerns of hunger. To get into the Halloween spirit we will be dressing up in costumes. The theme for the QFTC group will be...... Hippies! We will be meeting at 6 pm on Friday in the JDUC Breezeway (near the ATMs and food court) with our full out costumes. Remember to bring a backpack or reusable bag to carry the donations that are collected!
If you are interested in Trick or Eating with QFTC visit http://my.e2rm.com/TeamPage.aspx?Lang=en-CA&TSID=213668 to sign up ASAP! And if you'd like to know more about Trick or Eat and the Meal Exchange Program check out this YouTube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWy_jUt_cAk or their website http://www.mealexchange.com/trickoreat.
See you on Friday!!!!!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
We're back! Let's recap the last month...
Hey QFTCers!
After a looong absence since our last post, we're back! Many apologies to those that have been checking to website for updates, but we've had an extremely busy past month which included the hiring of our new executive team and Me to We Day @ Queen's. So let's cut right down to the chase and find out what we were up to for the past month or so.
QFTC Executive (2008-2009)
Congratulations to all our new executive team members for being selected to form QFTC '08-'09. An incredible number of qualified, intelligent, and passionate individuals applied for a position and we're so grateful to all applicants. The decision was not an easy one (that's for sure!) but we feel like we came up with a group of people that will be FANTASTIC in leading QFTC to even greater heights. So, without further ado, here they are:
Administrator - Avanthi Tudor
Community Relations Coordinator - Tyler Barrack
Events Coordinators - David Pardy, Sabrina Rubli, and Warren Duncan
First-Year Representatives - Daniel Law and Kathleen Boyd
FTC Liaison - Alex Pattee
Promotions and Publications - Sacha Stein
Congratulations team!
Me to We Day @ Queen's
This year's national Me to We (M2W) Day was on October 17th. Thousands of students, teachers, and volunteers gathered at the Ricoh Coliseum to celebrate a new way of living - Me to We. For those that don't know what M2W is, here's a little blurb from FTC:
M2W celebrations didn't end there! On Saturday, October 18th QFTCers and Oxfamers helped serve Thanksgiving Dinner at the Salvation Army, prepped Dawn House Women's Shelter for the winter, and sweeped through the streets of Kingston for a community cleanup. It was an eye-opening experience for all of us and we certainly lived out the M2W philosophy. Here are a few photos from the community cleanup and the Salvation Army:
Thanks so much to all our passionate volunteers that came out, and special thanks to Oxfam for their support throughout the event-planning process. For more information on M2W, please visit www.metowe.com.
Peace and respect,
QFTC
After a looong absence since our last post, we're back! Many apologies to those that have been checking to website for updates, but we've had an extremely busy past month which included the hiring of our new executive team and Me to We Day @ Queen's. So let's cut right down to the chase and find out what we were up to for the past month or so.
QFTC Executive (2008-2009)
Congratulations to all our new executive team members for being selected to form QFTC '08-'09. An incredible number of qualified, intelligent, and passionate individuals applied for a position and we're so grateful to all applicants. The decision was not an easy one (that's for sure!) but we feel like we came up with a group of people that will be FANTASTIC in leading QFTC to even greater heights. So, without further ado, here they are:
Administrator - Avanthi Tudor
Community Relations Coordinator - Tyler Barrack
Events Coordinators - David Pardy, Sabrina Rubli, and Warren Duncan
First-Year Representatives - Daniel Law and Kathleen Boyd
FTC Liaison - Alex Pattee
Promotions and Publications - Sacha Stein
Congratulations team!
Me to We Day @ Queen's
This year's national Me to We (M2W) Day was on October 17th. Thousands of students, teachers, and volunteers gathered at the Ricoh Coliseum to celebrate a new way of living - Me to We. For those that don't know what M2W is, here's a little blurb from FTC:
At heart, Me to We is a life philosophy: it offers us a way to live life, and its wisdom is the kind developed over the course of a lifetime. At the most basic level, it embraces the idea that we can all build a better life-and our ideal world-through reaching out to others. In practice, it involves focusing less on "Me", and more on "We"-our communities, our nation and our world as a whole. Today, Me to We is a worldwide movement of people finding purpose through living with compassion, strengthening community and making a commitment to our shared humanity.In celebration of M2W Day, QFTC and our friends at Queen's Oxfam, decided to hold our own M2W Day @ Queen's! On Friday, October 17th we handed out FREE hot chocolate. Not just that, but we also had a silent disco right infront of Stauffer Library. In the end we handed out over 100L of hot chocolate and everyone had a fantastic time! Here are some pictures:
M2W celebrations didn't end there! On Saturday, October 18th QFTCers and Oxfamers helped serve Thanksgiving Dinner at the Salvation Army, prepped Dawn House Women's Shelter for the winter, and sweeped through the streets of Kingston for a community cleanup. It was an eye-opening experience for all of us and we certainly lived out the M2W philosophy. Here are a few photos from the community cleanup and the Salvation Army:
Thanks so much to all our passionate volunteers that came out, and special thanks to Oxfam for their support throughout the event-planning process. For more information on M2W, please visit www.metowe.com.
Peace and respect,
QFTC
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