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Time For Change – December 3rd, 2009

Posted by renjie On November - 30 - 2009

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Part silent photo auction, part community involvement, and part celebration night out.

Kristina and Ruby are two recent grads who spent their summers after undergrad interning at 2 different NGO’s in Malawi and Botswana. They are both passionate about social change/media/innovation, photography, and are constantly striving for a better world. For our birthdays, we want to celebrate jointly and stray from the typical “go out and party”, and use this opportunity to bring people together and share our passions.

You are cordially invited to attend our Time for Change. Instead of raising money, we want to raise time. Each of us will be exhibiting photos from our respective experiences in Africa that our guests can bid on. However, instead of bidding with money, they will bid with community service hours for local non-profits.

Our Time for Change Objectives:

To thank all those who supported us financially and emotionally throughout the past year
To share our stories, encounters, gains and pains from the summer
To connect all those who want to be involved in the local community with meaningful volunteering opportunities that match their skills and fit their busy lifestyle.

Please join us at the Hotshots Gallery, 530pm-8pm on December 3rd, 2009. RSVP here.

We hope to see you there!

Ruby Ku | @rubyku | www.facebook.com/ruby.ku

Kristina Lugo | @kristinalugo | www.facebook.com/kristina.lugo

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Ignite Waterloo

Posted by renjie On November - 29 - 2009

Last Wednesday, we hosted the first-ever Ignite Waterloo at the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum in downtown Kitchener. It was certainly a great night, and from the numerous tweets, photos and blog posts that emerged following the event, it seems to have gone over well with the community in attendance.

For those of you who missed it, we’ve put together a three-minute video (see above) that I hope captures the spirit of Ignite Waterloo.

A slide deck of all the Ignite Waterloo presentations can be found below.

Ignite! Waterloo

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Teachers Make a Difference

Posted by renjie On November - 27 - 2009

In light Efren Peñaflorida’s CNN Hero of the Year win, I wanted to share one of my favorite Def Poetry Jam videos, Taylor Mali showcasing that teachers do make a difference in the lives of their students.

That being said, there are so many teachers from elementary, high school through to university, that have made me the person I am today, and I would like to thank each and every one of them. Of course, there are also numerous friends and family members that have taught me a thing or two about life, and I would not be the person I am today without them as well. Thank you.

Video(s) after the jump.

And since it is a Friday after all, I figured that I would include some of my favorite Def Poetry Jam videos as well. See below and enjoy!

Gemineye: Penny for your thoughts

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Efren Peñaflorida named CNN Hero of the Year

Posted by renjie On November - 23 - 2009

Efren Peñaflorida of the Philippines was named CNN Hero of the Year 2009 last night, at a gala event taped before an audience of 3,000 people at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

In his acceptance speech, Peñaflorida acknowledged the work that his co-volunteers put into the Dynamic Teen Company, an organization that provides Filipino youth in slum areas an alternative to gang membership, through education programs. Peñaflorida will receive a $100,000 grant to continue his work with the Dynamic Teen Company.

“Serve, serve well, serve others above yourself and be happy to serve. As I always tell to my co-volunteers … you are the change that you dream, as I am the change that I dream, and collectively we are the change that this world needs to be. Mabuhay.”

Sincere congratulations to Peñaflorida, as well as to everyone who made it to the CNN Heroes top 10 from an initial pool of more than 9,000 viewer nominations.

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R4Fashion and OUCH 2009

Posted by renjie On November - 22 - 2009

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Following the 3rd Conference on Social Enterprise in Toronto last Friday, I had the sincere pleasure of attending a number of student organized events over the weekend including R4Fashion, a fashion show dedicated to celebrating top and upcoming Canadian fashion designers who view fashion with an added green dimension; Out in the Cold at the University of Toronto, an event designed to raise funds and awareness of homelessness issues in the local community; as well as the Ontario Universities Competition for Hip Hop (OUCH) 2009, an annual hip hop competition showcasing the best of hip hop talent from universities and colleges across Ontario.

The main reason I attended OUCH 2009 this year was because my younger sister, Loubelle, who is in her second year of nursing at the University of Western Ontario, made it to the Western hip hop team to represent her school in the competition. Of course, I played the role of proud big brother and fully supported her at the event!

Congrats to all the winners this year at OUCH 2009, shout outs to the University of Waterloo peeps who placed third in the competition! (McMaster – First place, University of Toronto – Second place)