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Celebrating We Day

We Day is a great experience for kids, teenagers and adults. When you get there at the beginning of the day, your mind is blown away by everything — the hardworking volunteers have set everything up, helped everyone who needed it, and have done so many other things. Once you get into the 16,000 seat arena and look around, you can see that every single seat is filled.

I got to meet Marc Keilburger, who, with his brother, Craig, started the Me to We Foundation as children. It’s because of kids like them (though they are not kids anymore), that our communities and our world can be a better place. That really blew me away.

It’s great to be there and see the motivation people have to help. One of the main things that inspires this motivation is the speakers and performers including: Craig & Marc Kielburger, Hannah Taylor, Shawn Desman, Hedley, Down with Webster, Al Gore and many other people who make their presentations throughout the day. They teach you how you can help, how your school can help, how your family can help and how corporations can help.

Throughout the day, there are videos that play on big screens in the arena. These videos are very empowering and really make you think. They teach you about the conditions that people in the world are fighting: disease, hunger, natural disasters, lack of access to education that effects so many children, and, how we can make a difference.

Each person got a slip to fill out to possibly go on a volunteer trip to places like China, India, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Arizona, Mexico or Kenya.

I learned so much from my We Day experience and I know that everyone else who went did as well. It changed my view on the world and makes me want to help make the world a better place in every way that I can.

— Text by Catherine Morrison