School Involvement
Sacred Heart has always been an active contributor to the local community. Every year, the school gets involved with many fundraising and charitable organizations.
Throughout the past few years, Sacred Heart has participated biannually in the Canadian Cancer Society's biggest fundraiser, Relay For Life. The school has been very successful each time they have participated and are among the top school's in the country. Most recently in the spring of 2012, Sacred Heart's students' raised a combined total of $150, 279, the highest amount ever raised by any high school in Canada. The graduating class were featured on a CTV News broadcast.
The school participates in the Terry Fox Run, semester food drives, and Sharelife, an organization which raises funds to support those going through some very difficult times. Sacred Heart also participates in the CN Tower stairclimbs for United Way, The 30 Hour Famine, Habitat for Humanity and the World Wildlife Fund.
During the last five years, the Sacred Heart community, along with a number of other schools, have also been involved with the Hands of Hope project. The program was developed for the main reason of educating students concerning humanitarian and social justice issues and causes students to take action against them.
The charitable organization Hands Of Hope For the Children was formed upon the return of two teachers who had traveled on a bus, which acted as a mobile dentist clinic, through Guatemala in 1999. During this visit, they saw how much hope Sacred Heart could give to these communities. In 2000, four teachers and four students took three buses filled with donations from twelve schools in the Newmarket community to Guatemala. The donations included clothing, shoes, medical and dental supplies, tools, and athletic equipment. While in Guatemala, they distributed the items to organizations and villages within the country. Two of the buses are now being used as mobile medical clinics for rural villages. The third bus was given to a human rights organization for children's programs. The most recent campaign lead to the construction of over 100 beds for impoverished villages.
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