2. I’m Shayla Gillis! I am a 16 year old, grade 11
student from Baldur, Manitoba. I have grown
up in this small town and I truly care about it.
Small towns require volunteers for anything to
happen. I help with current activities, as well
as create new projects.
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4. • Rachel’s Challenge • Cancer Relay Walks
projects
• “Meals on Wheels”
• Vet clinic (Delivering meals to the
elderly in the community)
• leader for kids camps
• Soup kitchen/food bank
• Community Kitchen
• Student mentoring
programs for elementary
• leader for Kids Curling
& middle years students
Clinics
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6. I am a part of a group at my school, we have a
group that is designated to help other people.
Every month we meet and come up with ideas
to raise funds to help other people both
locally and globally. This group teaches us
that helping other people not only has
benefits for them, but it also benefits us.
Helping other people makes a huge positive
impact on my life.
7. I participated in a summer program called Homegrown Leaders, in
2011. This program taught us about food security. This world issue
is very serious and one that I am very passionate about . Living in
an agricultural community I am aware of the large role that we play
in this global crisis. Food security is defined as the availability of
food and one's access to it. A household is considered food secure
when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation.
Stages of food insecurity range from food secure situations to full-
scale famine. At the end of the Homegrown Leaders program, we
were challenged to make an action plan that changes people’s lives
in our communities. I decided to do a food drive and called it
Halloween for Hunger. One small way to help out with our local
food security.
8. The first year of this now annual event, I did it alone
by pulling a wagon around my small community. I
then donated what I had collected to the local
food bank. The food bank was so happy to see
this much food being brought in as the donations
were very low and the use of the food bank was
very high. I saw how much food I collected alone
and realized, what if I could get more people to
help collect? That’s exactly what I did this year.
The response was overwhelming and so positive.
We collected from not just 1 community, but 2
communities. My goal for this year is to involve
more communities and more volunteers.
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12. I am always willing to help, and very passionate
about my work. I care about the people and
environment around me. I try to better myself
and educate people about local and globally
issues. I love meeting new people and being
in new situations. I would love to learn from
this trip, and I would bring what I learn back
to my community.
Pick me, please!
