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Global Humanitarian Initiatives

 

Cultural Interpretive Society Charity Work Around The World

Providing clothing, blankets and other forms of aid to communities in need ...

 

 

 

Bolivia, South America

 

A group of fifteen youth, the Rotary Interact Club students at Stanley Humphries Secondary School, and six adults from the Castlegar area visited Bolivia for 15 days to help those less fortunate.  The group focused on completing a new Bolivia Children's Mission Orphanage for children who previously lived in an overcrowded home. For this trip in 2008, the Cultural Interpretive Society donated a quilt for each of the children in this orphanage.

 

 

 

 

 

Cuba

 

For the last five years, students from Mount Sentinel Secondary School have been taking part in Project Help, an organization that provides community service, both locally and globally.  This year's participants have painted signs, cleaned highways, repaired bus shelters, built bike trails, provided firewood for seniors and planted trees.  In previous years they have travelled to Tijuana, Mexico to build homes and work in orphanages.  Project Help is also providing the funding for a sanitation project in Guatemala.  After working on community projects for over a year, 18 Mount Sentinel students and 3 teachers travelled to Cuba in March to help rebuild a town hit by 3 massive hurricanes last year.  They are very grateful to the volunteers at the Cultural Interpretive Society who made and donated 21 quilts for the students and their teachers to take with them on this venture and to distribute the quilts to needy families.

 

  

 

  

 

 

Guatemala

 

We are proud to be supporters of the Selkirk College-Guatemala International Nursing Experience.  Third year nursing students and their instructors from Selkirk participate in an international nursing practice involving exploring links between community development and health. Over the last few years, the CIS donated quilts and contributed items to their fundraising events.  The USCC Arts and Crafts Training Centre is a collection depot for towels, bedding and personal hygiene products which the students take with them to distribute.

 

  

 

 

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