Kahnawake Students Raise Money and Awareness
Written by Paul Graif on 15 December 2021
Three high school students from Kahnawake recently helped raise awareness outside of the community about Every Child Matters and while doing so they raised money for a local education center.
Jacob Condo, Dylan Montour and Akwirente Leborgne, all of whom attend Selwyn House School in Westmount, made a significant donation to the Step By Step Child and Family Center on Tuesday.
“We did a few things like Orange Shirt Day. We read the Ohèn:ton Karihwatéhkwen,” said 10th grader Leborgne. “And what we did with the Orange Shirt Day led eventually to the stuff we did now which is donating the $1000 that we made to Ste By Step.”
The Executive Director of the Child and Family Center, Natalie Beauvais, was impressed with the student’s initiative.
“What a wonderful offering. What a way to give back to the community,” Beauvais said. “It was a very proud moment and I think Kahnawake should be proud of these young men. They are our future leaders and it was just a wonderful way of giving back.”
All three boys attended Step By Step and this was a chance to acknowledge their time there.
“I never thought that when I would be going back there that I would be donating money to help improve the great programs they have there,” Leborgne said. “We chose because I and the other people in the group came up with the idea, why don’t we donate somewhere locally.”
