ACTION ALERT: Help ReSkilling Edmonton and VOTE!

[Chelsea Flook]

On Tuesday, July 5^th, Fido will be launching Share Your Care - a campaign to support local environmental and community groups projects in partnership with Evergreen.  We need you to vote for your favourite project at www.shareyourcare.ca from July 5^th until August 14^th. You can vote once a day.

The ReSkilling Edmonton Network has a submission in this competition titled "Life Skills for Sustainability" (description contained below). We are looking for funds to help cover costs to keep skill-sharing workshops as affordable/ free as possible, so that cost is not a barrier to learning.  This funding would go towards finding well-equipped venues, cost of materials for a hands-on learning environment, promotion/ communications support, transportation costs, and the small details like having snacks and refreshments at workshops and thank you cards for our skill-sharers. All of this goes a long way in creating skill-sharing environments where traditional skills can be passed on, so that we can take action and find our own solutions to climate change, peak oil, energy insecurity, and a whole host of important and pressing issues.

Please vote for our project every day (or as often as you can!) from July 5th until August 14th. The highest ranking project will receive $25,000, the second highest ranking project will receive $15,000 and the third highest ranking project will receive $10,000. A Facebook account is required to vote.

Thanks for your support and I look forwards to building a network of skill-seekers and skill-sharers in this wonderful city of ours. Please visit http://www.shareyourcare.ca/

-- Chelsea Flook

Life skills for sustainability

About our project

The skills many seniors take for granted – knitting, sewing, mending, soup-making, baking, canning, gardening, composting, sprouting, weeding, plumbing, carpentry, reupholstering, weatherstripping and restoring – make best use of valuable resources, a fundamental part of sustainability. When you put these seniors, who are willing to teach, in contact with young people eager to learn, magic happens! The ReSkilling Edmonton Network wants to connect seniors with youth in skill-sharing workshops, empowering them to find ways of meeting their own needs locally, with their own hands.

Where the money goes

We hope to supply materials, assistances, and a suitable space in which to host the workshop, promote the program and provide whatever else may be required for a successful learning environment.

[sheila muxlow]

apologies for any cross posting!

Please take a moment to help us fund our 'Life Skills for Sustainability' Reskilling program in Edmonton!

~sheila

--
Sincerely,

Sheila Muxlow
Director
Sierra Club Prairie | Des Prairies du Sierra Club
**Please Note New Address**
6328 104 Street Nw, Edmonton, AB T6H 2K9
Office Phone | Téléphone au Bureau: +1-780-439-1160
Office Fax | Fax au Bureau : +1-780-485-9640

ONE EARTH, ONE CHANCE

Sierra Club Canada is a member-based organization that empowers people to protect, restore and enjoy a healthy and safe planet. Join us today! www.prairie.sierraclub.ca