High schools brew massive cup of generosity with coffee-donation drive
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A pyramid of coffee lined entrances at two Winnipeg high schools recently.
Something was brewing at Collège Béliveau and Windsor Park Collegiate as students and staff competed to see which school could get more donations of coffee to people in need, through St. Boniface Street Links.
Sarah Beatty, a Grade 12 student at Collège Béliveau said 36,000 grams of coffee was collected at her school between April 14 to 23, which she said was enough to fill about 1,600 mugs.
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Collège Béliveau leadership students Aislyn Chester (left), Eliza Honke, and Audrina Wavey with the coffee collected through the school coffee drive on Thursday.
She said she and the school’s leadership team decided to help the outreach organization with an item that is used a lot, but isn’t donated often.
“We figured we would make it a fun little school challenge, where people would donate and we could give back to our community in a way that’s still fun and brings together our two schools,” Eliza Honke, another Grade 12 student at Collège Béliveau, said.
She said she hopes other schools in the Louis Riel School Division can see how much fun they had and will join in for next year’s competition.
“(As) schools win, they kind of realize how much fun this can be, and how good it feels to win, even though we’re not actually winning that much,” Honke said.
She said the winning school gets a late start to the school day on a Monday and the losing principal must wear the other school’s hockey jersey.
Honke said she was sure her school had won Thursday morning before the results were announced, but said there was a bit of panic earlier in the week.
“It was pretty fun, a little stressful when we thought we were going to lose, but then we started getting more (donations) as the week went on,” Honke said.
Most of the donations came at the end of the week and were stored at the front of the school.
A teacher at Windsor Park said the high school collected 24,378 grams of coffee, which would be enough to make more than 1,200 cups.
Marion Willis, executive director of St. Boniface Street Links, confirmed Collège Béliveau as the victors Thursday. She said the organization spends up to $400 on coffee a month, and the donations will help.
“It’s going to mean everything … I think it’s really beautiful to see community become engaged,” Willis said.
She said the java donations will go to their warming shelter at 604 St. Mary’s Rd., and to encampments in the area.
She said she hopes the competition includes more schools next year, saying it is great to see young leaders helping people out.
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