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 Project was Have a Heart.  In this program, students raised money for the new children’s ward of the Kelowna General Hospital. This year as part of our Community Project the school purchased a Christmas tree in support of the BC Children’s Hospital Fundraiser, Festival of Trees. On Wednesday, November 26 the Grade 7 class went to the Grand Hotel and decorated our tree with ornaments made by students from Kindergarten to Grade 7 in their art classes. The event was a great success for the Children’s Hospital; over fifty trees were purchased and decorated by the local community. For our Country Project, we collected items of outdoor clothing and donated them to less fortunate families and children.

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. Last year the Grade 4 class participated in an art exchange programme. We have been working with Ms. Sikazwe, the Director of an indigenous Zambian organization called Women for Change. This year we raised over $600.00 for the Senanga Lunch Programme. Mary Weston has returned from Senanga where they have begun planting rice crops in an effort to build a sustainable rice programme to feed the children of 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.