The objective of our outreach programme is to educate our students about the social responsibility of assisting those in need and how to become compassionate and contributing citizens in the greater community around them.

Our Community Outreach Programme operates on these three levels:

• Our City
• Our Country
• Our World

Our goal each year is to involve our students at each of these levels. For the past two years, our local Community Projects have included Have a Heart and the Kelowna Gospel Mission.  Students raised money for the new children’s ward of the Kelowna General Hospital and did a boot , clothing and food drive for the mission. For our World Project, Aberdeen Hall is working to create a relationship with a school in Western Zambia called Lui-Namabunga in the district of Senanga. Our role is to help develop the educational programme at the school by sending lesson plans and supplies. In order to ensure the success of this outreach initiative we work closing  with an oganization called Women for Change. In 2009 the Grade 5 class designed treasure maps using skills they had learnt in  social studies. The maps were sent to Lui-Namabunga school along with a set of mapping lesson plans and necessary equipment. We received back wonderful drawings from the Lui- Namabunga school. In 2010 the  plan is to send drawings, paintings and lesson plans explaining the indigenous animals of Canada with discriptions of their environment and how they made adaptions. This will be a great co-curricular activity with science, social studies and art. In 2010 we also raised over $600.00 for the  Lunch Programme at the Lui- Namabunga school.

Additional programmes throughout the year include projects for the Heart and Stroke Association, and the annual Terry Fox Run for cancer research.

We are constantly working to develop this programme and welcome all members input and contributions in this area.