'This is a way for us to help': Oak Bay High School students begin fundraising drive to help two Ukrainian schools
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A group of students from the leadership class at Oak Bay High School is about to embark on a major fundraising project.
A group of students from the leadership class at Oak Bay High School is about to embark on a major fundraising project.
“We’re trying to raise $20,000 for two generators to go to Ukraine,” said Caylie McDougall, a Grade 10 student at the school.
Those generators will go to two schools to help in a learning environment that those students can barely imagine.
Victor Pas is the mayor of Kamin Kashyrsk, a small town in the northwest of Ukraine.
He says with air raid sirens constantly sounding throughout the country, students are often forced to spend their entire day in their school’s bomb shelter. While Russian rockets continue to target the country’s power grid, prolonged rolling blackouts are common, leaving students to learn in the dark.
“It almost makes it impossible to learn,” said Kevin Murdoch, the mayor of Oak Bay.
Hearing what the students in that community have to go through on an almost daily basis, Murdoch wanted to help.
