After our Christmas presents and crafts drive, this is was our second drive for this year. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, all the resources at the CCC House ( transit house for children with cancer) have been limited, and one of these resources was diapers for the children as that is a never-ending requirement. Single-use diapers can be really harmful to the environment therefore in order to be sustainable our diaper drive also encouraged students, teachers, and all our community members to bring in reusable diapers that are available in the market. We highly encouraged all our service members for Hope For Kids also to only pick up reusable diapers if they were able to find them. Understanding the number of places these were available was really few but everyone put in their best effort to find these online. We were taking into account learning outcomes 6 and 7 as we were being mindful of the issues present in the environment and we tried mitigating it in our choices by putting out posters to encourage Sustainable and Reusable Diapers.

The diaper drive had several stages to it. The first stage was promoting and planning where were we going to promote it.  Primary School has always been a major contributor to all our drives therefore we emailed primary homeroom teachers for permission to join their homeroom and explain to all the students our goals and why were we doing it. We wanted to spread awareness of children’s cancer while we were doing it so in the future our community is aware of our long-term goals as well. After getting approvals from homeroom teachers we made a schedule for all our members, and we went to homerooms in pairs. We virtually promoted the diaper drive in primary for a week, after which we sent out our posters to the entire school community through the daily bulletin, newsletters, and homeroom teachers. Doing this virtually required a lot of coordination as we were unable to collect things that were dropped off and since none of the classes had teachers we had to plan how things would be dropped and collected therefore we emailed the security team, and along with help from our service supervisor’s, we placed a box near the guard’s room where people were able to drop the diapers off. Through this, I demonstrated learning outcomes 2 and 3 as we came across challenges within our plan but we were able to successfully complete our food drive using our communication skills with people present on the school campus. There was a lot of planning required in order to avoid any overlap while going to homerooms, creating posters, and sending out emails to promote our drive.

We successfully completed our drive as we collected 563 diapers by the time we completed and these were all delivered to the CCC house with the help of our service supervisors who arranged transportation that dropped the diapers off.