News and Updates

During the March break of 2019 we had the wonderful oppertunity to travel to Ecuador and into the Amazon. Please check out this brief presentation. 

We are fundraising to take a volunteer trip to Ecuador through the WE organization and would love your support! 

To learn more about our volunteer trip and how you can visit the Into The Amazon section.

We will be accepting online donations by the end of the month.  You will be able to donate through the TDSB Online Payment page and all donations over $25 will be eligible for a Tax receipt. 

We were invited to a Rotary BBQ which was held at the Eglington Tennis and Racket Club. tennis club. Some of our members got the chance to speak to rotary members and sell some more of our gear. We also sold special edition Rotary t-shirts. Thank you to everyone at Rotary for giving us the opportunity!

Following WE's "We Walk for Water" campaign we decided to hold our own version of a water walk along side Pho Noodle lunch.  While we raised money through sales we also raised awareness by having conversations with customers while they waited and also had sand bags available for those to learn more about the carrying of water and the challenges associated with that.  

In order to promote our YYZ Inbound line we worked on a "Look book" using our very own JPCI Students. Check out some of the behind the scenes images.

Check out the look book on the YYZ Inbound Page

Thanks to Rotary Golf Club, a few students got the chance to have lunch with members of rotary and students from other schools. This was a great opportunity to network and raise money for CITY.

Winters in Toronto can be unforgiving, so JPCI CITY students created over 100 winter care kits for the homeless men and women of Toronto then donated them to an organization named Street Health. We were given the chance to learn more about different aspects of the homeless community, how they advocate for more affordable housing and help sort through over 1000 pairs of shoes for their annual 'shoe party'.

This also was in line with WE's "We will not rest" campaign.

JPCI CITY were invited to the soft opening of WE's brand new Global Learning Center, here we had an opportunity to chat with Craig Kielburger and fill each other in on what we have been doing since the last time we met with IVY.  The center is a hub of innovation for like minded students.

Our awesome staff advisor Mr. Essabhai won the Prime Minister's award for teaching excellence.  There he had an opportunity to give the PM a thank you gift for helping us out with our Welcome to Toronto Video. He then wrote us this letter as words of encouragement.

We had an amazing opportunity to host a town hall meeting with the Premier of Ontario and MPPs, Mike Colle and Mitzie Hunter.  Here was had an opportunity to ask questions and share our projects.

Last year the JPCI CITY team decided to ease the settlement of newcomers and immigrants to Canada by starting the YYZ Inbound initiative. Since we had assumed a product-based business, our first step was to brainstorm our selling point. In our previous projects, we had sold various different products, ranging from bracelets and cups to locally harvested produce. This time, we had decided to dabble with apparel. Most of the teenage population within our school and community followed the latest trends in clothing so an apparel-based initiative was the best factor of developing a solid initiative. Our next step was to brainstorm the type of clothing and how it would look. We decided that t-shirts were the most versatile and desired product. We also wanted a simple, yet chic design that displayed a recognizable logo and also aspects of Toronto. Our designers came up with a brilliant YYZ imprint, that displayed the famous Toronto skyline within the letters. As expected, the shirts gained massive popularity and we completely sold two complete batches of orders. Our initiative was met with positive feedback from our community, the minister of immigration John McCallum, Mayor John Tory, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This year we decided to continue the YYZ Inbound initiative by improving the quality of our t-shirts and releasing limited edition crew neck sweatshirts. Within less than a week we were able to sell out of our 50 crew neck sweatshirts. We are currently working on expanding our product line in order to meet the overwhelming demand for our products. 

Malaria is a life-threatening disease that is rapidly spreading in regions without proper medical care and assistance. With over half a million deaths per year attributed to malaria, it has become an increasingly evident issue. While people like us enjoy the protection of an advanced healthcare system, many do not. Safety is a luxury under today’s conditions, so we must do our part in helping our global brothers and sisters. This fall the JPCI CITY team addressed this issue by participating in the Spread the Net Challenge through Plan International Canada. Over the course of a week we collected donations, and by the end of the week, we donated over 50 kits to malaria-infected regions. These kits contained insecticide-treated bed nets that were able to protect 2 people from malaria for up to 3 years. This initiative allowed us to raise money for a good cause and educate others about the dangers of malaria and the places it affects. This success inspired us to increase our goal to 100 kits. 

We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their support:

Abdul Hadibhai

Aly Hadibhai

Amyn Hadibhai

Michael Firmani

Carol Lynn Lepard

Jen Green

Brena Parnes

Elizabeth Price

Sherry Nelligan

Alessandro Marreli

Dana Saltern

Margaret Norman

Vickie Danby

Danielle Racine

Muni Merani

Nancy Whitney

Lindsay Horton

Cliona Taylor

James Truman

Janette Mitchel

Levi Pombeiro

Michelle Boudreau

Lina Bilardo

Darja Keith

Chris Staines

Mehernaz Patel

Barb Dawson

Jason Oh

Kathy Thompson

Cecilia Soto

Yvonne Ferrer

Lindsay Bickford

Linda Haldenby

With the help of the staff, students and the Adult ESL Program at our school,  JPCI, we were able to raise $1527.90 in a single, 45-minute lunchtime bake sale. All of the proceeds collected will be matched by the Government of Toronto so the final amount will reach over $3000!