Students at Yellowknife’s St Patrick’s High School are working to help keep everyone warm this winter.
Rufta Tesfamichael and Lauren Lalonde, members of the high school’s Interact Club, are helping to organize Eeze the Freeze – an initiative derived from a former Yellowknife event named the Coldest Night of the Year walk.
“We wanted to do something like it again,” Lalonde said of The Coldest Night of the Year, a Canada-wide fundraising walk that partners with local charities.
The goal of the walk – and of Eeze the Freeze, which took place for the first time last year – is to raise awareness of people in need.
When Yellowknife’s Coldest Night walk was cancelled, Lalonde said, the Interact Club contacted local youth charity Home Base Yellowknife and “just orchestrated our own walk called Eeze the Freeze.”
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Aside from the walk, St Pat’s Interact Club is also taking clothing donations.
“We’re going to ask the community, students in our school and their family members to get as many warm clothing items as they have like scarves, sweatpants, snowpants and jackets that they don’t find useful any more,” said Tesfamichael.
Donated clothing can be dropped in dedicated bins at the high school or the school office, Tesfamichael added. Items will be given to Home Base Yellowknife for distribution.
The Eeze the Freeze walk itself will take place on April 4 from 3:45-6pm, starting at the school.
After the walk is finished, participants will be welcomed at the school for chilli and buns.
