Youth Indigenous Voices
Youth Indigenous Voices is organizing a free, virtual event featuring two incredible young female Indigenous rights and climate activists.
The panel will be held virtually, via Zoom, on Sunday, March 27th, at 5:30PM EST.
Krispy Kreme
GardenBank’s first fundraiser of the year 💖
With special help from our amazing volunteers, we sold 120 boxes of donuts and raised over $1231! Thank you for helping us out and persevering in the cold 😊
Thanks to everyone who participated, volunteered or donated in our Krispy Kreme fundraiser! 💚 We will be using the donations to give back to our community through sandwich runs and more. Stay tuned for more fundraisers and posts regarding our missions towards sustainability in the future!
We Scare Hunger
We are doing a raffle for our We Scare Hunger campaign. All you need to do is sign up to participate in collecting canned food from your neighbourhood through the quick form in our bio! More information can be found on the form and any questions can be asked through our DMs. Don’t miss out!
Earthweek Contest
We’re back with a new contest to kickstart the beginning of our weekly posts! Its super easy to enter and big chances to win. Swipe to learn how to participate and keep your eye out for more posts on how each daily topic helps our environment!
Garbage Collection Contest
Hi everyone, GardenBank is announcing our first ever GARBAGE COLLECTION CONTEST 🥳
Scroll for more details on the dates of the contest and how to participate! Further information will be posted closer to the week of the contest!!
Halloween Closet
Happy Halloween from GardenBank! Here are some easy, last minute DIY costumes that you can make with materials already in your home! Have a safe and spooky day
Tanzania Garden
We partnered with Ajoykindergarten, an organization from Tanzania, Africa, who strives to provide healthy and nutritious food for children. The proceeds from our bottle drives, Krispy Kreme sales and other future fundraisers will go towards Ajoykindergarten to support their cause💚
Our collaboration with @ajoykindergarten in creating a garden in Tanzania is moving forward very well! We are ecstatic to see how we are able to contribute in the community. Thank you once again to @ajoykindergarten for letting us be a part of this!
Plant
In recent weeks, our team began a new project - to donate mini succulents and handwritten cards containing hopeful messages to nursing homes/care facilities across the Lower Mainland. This afternoon, our members dropped off cards and indoor plants for the 108 residents of Fleetwood Place Care Facility. This is just our first, of many nursing homes that we will donate to in the near future.
We encourage you to DM us a message that will brighten up someone’s day to put in a card :)
Canned Food Drive
Many challenges arose during the pandemic and the GardenBank Team has been working hard to help tackle these challenges.
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One of the challenges we focused on is the drastic decrease in Food Bank donations. With many changes happening at once, we’ve forgotten that others are struggling with food disparity. To help restore the amount of donations lost, a few of our members went door-to-door collecting non-perishable food items while practicing social distancing and safety precautions! 😷
A total of 130lbs worth of food were collected and donated to
Elementary Workshop
We conducted our first workshop at
Alderson Elementary school!
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Thanks to Camille, Lauryn and Marissa, the students were able to learn a little about sustainable practices and plant their own bean sprouts for their school garden. 🌱
Look forward to more fun workshops like these in the future!
Bottle Drive
In the night of Halloween, GardenBank members went around local communities and collected recyclables.
In total, we collected approximately more than 1000 bottles which we’ve dropped off at our local return it depots!
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2. @centgbs
Sandwich
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Last Friday, the GardenBank team went to Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side and handed out a total of 150 paper wrapped sandwiches to the less fortunate. The following clip captures the issue of food disparity in our local community and provides solutions on what we, as youth, can do to help. 🎥 creds: @damonlangford
Full Video on IGTV