Student members of Vancouver College’s Action Team, Sean Ryan, Marcus Saldanha and Sean Cuevas.
Flier from Vancouver College’s Fear the Beard Campaign (adopted from Brother Rice Chicago) which seeks to raise funds for the Kristian Domingo Foundation. The foundation is named in honor of a Vancouver College alumnus who passed away from cancer.
This November, the Vancouver College Action Team -- Sean Ryan, Marcus Saldanha, Sean Cuevas, and Mrs. Lilian Vernier -- was proud to run our first ever Fear the Beard campaign. For a minimum donation of $5, students received a bead bracelet on to which they could add the initials of a person they were taking part in the initiative for. The proceeds went to the Kristian Domingo Foundation, a charity created by the family of a Vancouver College alumnus who passed away from cancer. Not only was this about cancer awareness but also about furthering a sense of solidarity among the staff and students of our school through a sense of shared struggle and loss. The team picked up on the idea at the Christian Brother's 2018 Action Conference that they attended earlier in the year. We look forward to concluding our initiative at the end of November, and are excited to use this initiative as a launch for our new school leadership and service club, Seeding Hope."