WE Day Toronto was last week and it was amazing! There were so many inspiring speakers and performers that made the day awesome for the 20,000 change makers that filled the Air Canada Centre. It was my 26th WE Day and there was a moment that was, without doubt, the most powerful moment I’ve experienced […]
WE Day Toronto: Getting to know some of the people you’ll see on stage
WE Day Toronto is only days away and I am so excited to be part of it! It’s been a while since I’ve been on the stage at WE Day and I am so proud to be on it again. I LOVE WE Day for the energy, motivation and inspiration that fills every stadium. The […]
Hurricane Matthew in Haiti: WE Update from the Ground
On Tuesday October 4 Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti hard. Current reports include that the nearly 900 people have died, 350,000 people need help, at least 28,000 homes have been destroyed and almost 90 percent of some areas of Haiti’s south had been “completely destroyed.” Haiti is one of the 8 countries where WE Villages works. WE Charity began […]
The Ultimate #ThrowbackThursday: Multiple Memories & Multiple #Somedays
My #ThrowbackThursday post on Facebook today brought together so many memories that by the time I finished writing, it was much longer than I thought it was going to be when I started. It felt more like a blog post, so here it is… Bringing together a few memories for #ThrowbackThursday to this day in Kenya in […]
What I learned at the Kisaruni Girls Secondary School
Looking back to when I first learned about Free The Children and WE, I looked into their five pillars of impact– Education, Water, Food, Health and Opportunity. These work together to address poverty – the root and the solutions. I quickly learned about the challenges around education and that not all school-age children go […]
One-On-One with Lauren Singer, saying “no” to trash since 2013
All the time, I talk about how when we are one person making a difference, it might not seem like we can make an impact, but that one person can inspire more people to make a difference. The actions that we all take add up. Simple math. Lauren Singer is a prime example of that. […]
The WE Store Opens at Toronto Eaton Centre
Living WE is about celebrating successes of all kinds and over the past couple of weeks there have been some really BIG things to celebrate. There was the big announcement from Craig about the evolution of WE, the countdown to the WE Day broadcast on ABC on August 28th and the opening of the first, […]
Here WE Grow
I spent a week volunteering with the New Media team at Free The Children in July and I could not have dreamed up a more exciting week to be there. On July 20th Free The Children announced some big changes that are best explained by co-founder, Craig Kielburger: You all know the story that twenty-one years ago […]