The boys collected over 300 pairs of jeans for the homeless Sebastion, and Harris (on the left), and Cooper, and Tristan (on the right)
The Teens for Jeans campaign has been a thriving charity with secondary schools for seven years now, and the boys of Rockridge Secondary School in West Vancouver further boosted the proud tradition.
Over those seven years the cause has raised “over 4.3 million pairs of jeans for homeless teens and over 15,000 schools have participated” local mother Tiffany Fraser informed me. Tiffany Fraser and Jodi Shoemaker were two of the parents assisting the young boys in their cause.
This group of friends registered for the cause on dosomething.org which is the largest North American organization to support youth volunteer opportunities with over three million members.
The four eighth grade boys, under their mothers supervision campaigned all around West Vancouver, advertising the cause through news letters and buletins at local clubs, and schools.
The boys worked together as a team to make their parents and the community very proud “I wanted my son to not see jeans in a bin but understand that a boy his age is living on the street with no safe haven” Jodi explained. The boys wanted an opportunity to build a strong community and character.
The month of February proved profitable for the cause as Jodi tells me “the end product was over 300 homeless teens receiving a pair of jeans” a substantial amount of jeans for a group of boys who didn’t’ collect any donations outside of the West Vancouver District.
Aeropostal offered the services to the boys to collect the donated jeans.
Keeping a group of thirteen year old boys in check one could imagine is no easy task, as Tiffany explained, “Arranging them around all of their busy schedule’s was sometimes challenging, but it seemed to always work out”
Never count out the work of four young boys.
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