Battlefords youth group hopes to make communities better through Kids Helping Kids
A local youth with an interest in helping others has been busy this spring cleaning people’s yards to raise money for charity.
Emily Simon, a John Paul II Collegiate student, said she hopes to make improvements to the community with the spring cleanup project while helping others at the same time, as part of Kids Helping Kids, a non-profit charity business initiative. The Battleford resident and several other local youths are currently working on a project to clean people’s properties, and the funds raised will benefit charity causes. This is the second year of the spring cleanup project.
“It’s like a little business, but no one gets any of the profit,” Simon said. “All the profit, we donate to different charities.”
Simon said the group will be giving the profits from this year’s clean-up fundraiser to both the local Canadian Mental Health Association branch and a Me to We international charity project in Kenya. Simon said she will be participating in a mission trip with her brother in Kenya next year through the Me to We charity, so half of the profits from the lawn care project this spring will go towards the Kenya charity project planned for 2019.