When Hannah Taylor was five, one winter night in her native Winnipeg she saw a man eating from a dumpster. “Why is he doing that?” she asked her parents. For the next year, Hannah peppered her parents with questions about homelessness and the man she’d seen. Finally, her mom Colleen asked Hannah if she would like to do something to help him. The conversation sparked another, the following day, between Hannah and her teacher, Cori Hildebrand, about raising money for a homeless shelter. “She took me seriously,” says Hannah, now 16, crediting her Grade 1 teacher for inspiring what would become a lifelong passion.
Hannah went on to organize a fundraiser for Winnipeg’s Siloam Mission, the first of many, and collected money at school, home and in her community in jars she painted to look like ladybugs. Soon, she began visiting shelters, talking to street youth, learning first-hand about the issue.
So far, Hannah’s Ladybug Foundation has raised $3 million for homeless people across the country.
http://www.ladybugfoundation.ca/
Comox Valley's homeless association - Dawn to Dawn
http://dawntodawn.org/
Hannah went on to organize a fundraiser for Winnipeg’s Siloam Mission, the first of many, and collected money at school, home and in her community in jars she painted to look like ladybugs. Soon, she began visiting shelters, talking to street youth, learning first-hand about the issue.
So far, Hannah’s Ladybug Foundation has raised $3 million for homeless people across the country.
http://www.ladybugfoundation.ca/
Comox Valley's homeless association - Dawn to Dawn
http://dawntodawn.org/